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Assistant State Superintendent 



Issued By 

R. H. WILSON 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

OKLAHOMA 



Days To Be Observed By Public 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

The preparation of this volume has been a real pleasure and the compiler 
has felt free to use material found in Special Day bulletins issued by various 
states, as well as suggestions and helpful material found in many periodicals. 
The assistance given by the Secretary of the Oklahoma Library Commission 
deserves special mention. Helpful suggestions on Armistice Day have come 
from the members of the American Legion. Thanks are due The Colonial Art 
Company, 1336 West First St., Oklahoma City for many of the illustrations 
used in this book. 

E. N. COLLETTE, 
Assistant State Superintendent 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

APR9-1921 

DOCUIVltiMT. ^ION 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Page 
Arbor Day and Tree Day ___■__ _________ 71 

Armistice Day __________--__--_ 25 

Bird Day '___._-______.____-.- \ _ - _ 77 

Boy Scout Day _________________ 61 

Christmas _________-___----- 49 

Columbus Day _________________ 21 

Constitution Day ________________ 1 1 

Easter _________-__---_--_- 79 

Election Day __________________ 23 

Fire Prevention Day _______________17 

Flag Day ___________________ 99 

Good Roads Day ________________ 83 

Health Crusade _________________ 41 

Independence Day ________________103 

Labor Day __________________ 7 

Lee's Birthday _________________ 57 

Library Day __________________35 

Lincoln's Birthday ________________ 63 

Memorial Day _________________ 97 

Mother's Day _________________ 89 

New Year's Day _________________51 

Peace Day __________________ 93 

Safety First __________________ 1 3 

Statehood Day _________________ 27 

Thanksgiving __________ ^ _______ 3 1 

Thrift Day __________________ 53 

Washington's Birthday _______________ 67 




HON. R. H. WILSON 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



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To The Reader: 

Holiday originally was a term for "holy day/' a festival set apart for religious 
observances in memory of some sacred event or sacred person. The school 
usage of the term usually relates to a day or period of days when regular school 
work is suspended. 

There are few holidays designated as legal holidays. Our Nation has a 
large number of special days during the school term which alert teachers and 
communities will use as teaching opportunities. 

In the early days holidays were determined by the religious influence while 
now the motive is largely to provide social recreation. These special days are 
important days in the history and development of our Nation and as such should 
be brought to the attention of the school children in a way that enables them to 
grasp the full meaning. 

The best way to observe most of our special days is for educators to use 
them as focusing points and radiating centers for regular lessons. At best the 
school term is too short for most pupils and to have it broken into further by 
dismissing school to observe our anniversaries will detract rather than add to 
school results. Much better results will come if regular work will cluster in- 
tensively and naturally about the important events nationally and with the world 
about us celebrating, remembering and applying is the best possible time to learn 
indelibly. 

School children are patriots and the "love of Country spirit" needs to be 
directed into channels that will utilize this patriotism into training for complete 
citizenship. 

This bulletin has been prepared with the above end in view and teachers 
are urged to supplement the suggested programs to meet local needs and in this 
way vitalize the whole school year. Special efforts should be made to enlist 
the talent of all the community from time to time and our national festivals 
and anniversaries offer splendid opportunities for alert teachers to direct the 
activities of the entire district along lines of real worth. 



Special Day Guide 



THE FOLLOWING DATES ARE SUGGESTED FOR THE 

OBSERVANCE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT 

SPECIAL DAYS 



SEPTEMBER 
Labor Day, First Monday; 
Constitution Day, the 1 7th ; 
Safety First, Last week; 

OCTOBER 
Fire Prevention Day, the 9th; 
Columbus Day, the 1 2th ; 

NOVEMBER 
Election Day, Tuesday after the 

first Monday; 
Armistice Day, the 11th; 
Statehood Day, the 16th; 
Thanksgiving Day, Last Thursday ; 
Library Day, the 25th ; 

DECEMBER 
Health Crusade, the First week; 
Christmas, the 25th; 

JANUARY 
New Years Day, the 1st; 
Thrift Day, the 10th; 
Lee's Birthday, the 19th; 



FEBRUARY 
Scout Week, the 8th; 
Lincoln's Birthday, the 12th; 
Washington's Birthday, the 22d; 

MARCH 
Arbor and Tree Day ; 

APRIL 
Bird Day, Second Week; 
Easter, Changeable Date; 
Good Roads, the Last Week; 

MAY 
Mother's Day, Second Sunday; 
Peace Day, the 18th; 
Memorial Day, the 30th; 

JUNE 
Flag Day, the 14th; 

JULY 
Independence Day, the 4th; 



This volume contains many suggestions and helps for the observance of 
special days. Every pupil in every school in Oklahoma should be taught the 
significance of the days mentioned in this bulletin even though the date for the 
observance of the day comes outside the regular school term. Teachers are urged 
to see that each year of school covers at least these specially mentioned days. 

"Old Glory" salutes you from the front cover. Its red, white and blue calls 
to the boys and girls to exhibit daily, hardiness and valor; purity and innocence; 
vigilence, perseverance, and justice. These cardinal virtues of our national 
emblem stand for all that makes a loyal American citizen. 

Within the covers, we have sought to place before you some of the best 
pictures inspired by master artists. These pictures have a real message. 

On the back cover the Oklahoma state flag waves a greeting to you. Still 
a harmony of red, white and blue and in the lives of all who read this volume 
may the essential traits of strong manhood and womanhood be prefectly blended. 

That the Oklahoma Public Schools may the better serve its boys and girls 
this volume is sent forth. 

Sincerely, 

R. H. WILSON, 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



LABOR DAY 

On the first Monday in September the people of the United States take 
occasion to pay tribute to the working people of the country, but more especially 
they observe the day out of a desire to recognize the great bearing work has on 
our progress and achievement. Too many of us have the wrong impression that 
the day is observed in recognition of the labor unions only. Rather it is in recog- 
nition of labor in the abstract. 

Without work man cannot survive. Work has multiple advantages; it 
benefits the worker, not only, but the community, the state, the nation and the 
world. Our welfare, personal and civic, is based upon our work and that of our 
fellowmen. Constructive work is the first requisite of good citizenship. 

An important and extremely valuable lesson may be derived by the careful 
and serious consideration of work and its relation to the life of the country. The 
schools can teach no greater lesson than this to the citizens of tomorrow. 

HONEST WORK 

"Men said the old man was foolishly careful when he wrought on the great 
chain he was making in his dingy shop in the heart of the great city. But he 
heeded not their words, and only wrought with greater painstaking. Link 
after link he fashioned and welded and finished, and at last the great chain was 
completed. 

"Years passed. Onz night there was a terrible storm, and the ship was 
in sore peril of being dashed upon the rocks. Anchor after anchor was dropped, 
but none of them held. At last the mighty sheet anchor was cast into the sea, 
and the old chain quickly uncoiled and ran out till it grew taut. All watched 
to see if it would bear the awful strain. It sank in the wild storm as the vessel's 
weight surged upon it. It was a moment of intense anxiety. The ship with 
its thousand lives depended upon this one chain. What now if the old smith 
had wrought carelessly even one link of his chain? But he put honesty and truth 
and invincible strength into every part of it, and it stood the test, holding the 
ship in safety until the storm was over." 

American intelligence must be prepared by American enterprise in finding 
its true place for every man, and seeing to it, as far as possible, that every man 
shall get into that place in life which shall be not only his shop, but his school; 
not alone his living, but also his advancing culture. 

— Frank W. Gunsaulus. 

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of ex- 
changeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition 
of the savage; that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; 
that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given 
us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. 

— John R. McCulloch. 




END OF DAY— Adan 



Labor Day 



REFERENCES 

The Department of Labor, Washington. 
The Department of Labor, Oklahoma City. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song. 

Essay — The inauguration of Labor Day. 

Address — Work — its advantages. 

Responses on "The work I like best " 

Song. 

POEMS 

The Builders — Longfellow. 

The Sons of Martha — Rudyard Kipling. 

Child Labor — Henry Van Dyke 

The Man with the Hoe — Edwin Markham 

Two Sowers' Songs — Thomas Carlyle 

INSPIRATION 

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is 
a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. — Herder. 

Difficulties are meant to arouse, not discourage. — Channing. 

The impartial earth opens alike to the child of the pauper and the king. 

— Horace. 

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing's so hard but search 
will find it out. — Herrick. 

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five years in the next 
millenium. — Emerson. 

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that is the stuff 
life is made of. — Franklin. 

A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing 
strokes are from the will. — South. 



CONSTITUTION DAY 

SEPTEMBER 17TH 

In recognition of the educational value of commemorating the establishment 
of the fundamental law of our country, it is well to provide for appropriate 
exercises of instruction and inspiration as a part of the daily school program, in 
observance of September seventeenth as Constitution Day. 

The national effort for "Americanization" calls eloquently to the public 
schools faithfully to neglect no opportunity to teach American ideals and inspire 
in pupils a loyal faith in American principles of popular government. The 
appropriate observance of Constitution Day is an opportunity to impress upon 
young citizens of school and country the significance of the making of the Con- 
stitution of the United States and the first principles of our democratic civilization. 

The Constitution is our guiding star in times of unrest and national peril. 
This country's future is dependent upon tomorrow's citizens. Let us take 
specific measures to insure them a practical knowledge of the principles upon 
which our government is based and upon which it has so wonderfully prospered. 

REFERENCES 

"American Anniversaries" — Dillon: P. R. Dillon Pub. Co., N. Y. 
Any American History. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — America or Star Spangled Banner 

Salute to the flag. 
Essay — The Constitution and what it means to us. 

Story of the signing of the Constitution. 
Song — Battle Hymn of the Republic. 



SAFETY FIRST 
THE WHY OF SAFETY 

"In every community, from the largest city to the smallest hamlet, there 
leads a road to destiny; as we come to the end of the long, long trail, we arrive 
at a silent city. On the finest hill in the cemetery where lots are expensive, 
we read on a great mausoleum of stone "YOUTH:" 

"IN MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED SON AGED 23." The family 
history includes also the line, omitted from the monument, KILLED BY CARE 
LESSNESS. 

And in these graveyards with Youth and Middle Age are buried Success, 
Opportunity, Joy, Fame, Genius, Wealth and Happiness. This is the price 
of carelessness. This is the why of the safety movement. — R. N. Hemming. 

A man was speaking to a group of 300 factory boys — sixteen to eighteen 
years of age. The topic under discussion was Safety First. The value of an 
arm, an eye, a leg was mentioned. One boy stated that he had to go to work 
because his father was killed recently due to the breaking of a scaffold. 

The question was asked: "How many boys have had to go to work because 
their fathers have been killed or seriously injured through accident?" 

Exactly 100 of the 300 boys raised their hands. Picture the loss of education 
to children, the suffering to mothers, the loss to society as revealed by the flash 
of 100 boys' hands. 

DOES SAFETY FIRST PAY? 

ACCIDENT LOSS AGAINST WAR LOSS 

2,000,000 American soldiers went across seas; of this number 50,150 were 
killed in battle or died as the result of wounds received on the battlefield during 
nineteen months. 200,000 were injured in battle. 

During the same nineteen months in America, 126,000 men, women, and 
children were killed by accidents in the industries, on the streets, and in the 
homes. 

During this same nineteen months there were over 2,000,000 men, women, 
and children who were so seriously injured by accidents that they lost over 
four weeks of time or were permanently maimed. 

CARELESSNESS has reaped a heavy toll in America. Such expressions 
as "I Didn't Think," "Don't Care," "I Forgot" are too common and reveal 
clearly the plan to follow to correct the general tendency as regards safety first 
in all things. The accidents causing children to suffer are caused by children 
themselves and by adults so there is a work to do among men and women, and 
among the children if CAREFULNESS is to rule in the place of CARELESS- 
NESS. 



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The schools already are training children in the right habits of safety and 
indirectly this is reaching the adults but accidents are too common and the penalty 
in human life is yet too great. Teachers should never fail to take every oppor- 
tunity to impress safety first teaching. This will correlate with every subject 
in the course of study and form the basis for lessons from daily life that will 
grip and hold because of their intense human interest. 

Three ways to teach accident education! FIRST, introducing in the course 
of study and daily teaching accident prevention instruction. The SECOND is 
by having the children construct and give plays illustrating accident situations. 
The THIRD is the organization of the whole school with the idea that they shall 
be responsible for the welfare of the community in which they live. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Chorus — 

Address — "The Reason Why for Safety First." 
Recitation — To be selected. 

Essay — Accidents, Their Causes and Prevention. 
Chorus — 

Essay — "Be Careful First" 
Address — Traffic Officer or Fireman. 
Fire Drill- 
Chorus — ■ 

ACCIDENT TOLL FOR ONE YEAR 

Falls, 11,114; Railroad, 8,649; Burns, 6,830; Automobiles, 6,724; Drowning, 
5,550; Asphyxiation, 3,375; Mine, 2,623; Miscellaneous Vehicle Accidents, 
2,326; Street Cars, 2,277; Machinery, 2,112; Miscellaneous, 1,964. 

REFERENCES 

"Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts," 

Bulletins and Posters of the National Safety Council, 208 South La Salle 
Street, Chicago, 111. 

"Safeguarding the Home Against Fire," Prepared for the United States 
Bureau of Education by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. 

"Education in Accident Prevention," Lyons &Z Carnahan, Chicago. 

"Safety First for Little Folks," by Lillian M. Waldo, Published by Charles 
Scribner's Sons, Chicago. 

"Safety Slogans," National Safety Council. 

Safety Bulletins, issued by various railroads and other corporations. 

Motion picture films and lantern slides available through the National 
Safety Council, Chicago, 111. 



Safety First Week 1 5 



RULES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY 

FOR CHILDREN 

ALWAYS BE CAREFUL 

Do not play in the roadway. 

Play on the sidewalk or on the nearest playground or vacent lot. 
Don't skate on sidewalk or on roadway. 
Never chase a ball across the street. 
Don't hitch on autos, trolleys or wagons. 
Do not coast where trolleys or autos go. 
Don't play around autos or touch any of the levers. 
Never touch wires at any time or place. 
Do not fear the policemen; they will help and protect you. 
Never run behind a standing trolley car; there may be another car or auto 
approaching the other side. 

FOR PEDESTRIANS 
ALWAYS BE CAUTIOUS 

Look both ways before crossing the street. 

Cross the street at the regular crossing, not diagonally or in the middle 
of the block. 

Don't read a paper when crossing a street. 

Always obey the traffic officer's signals and commands. 

Keep your eyes open for trolleys, autos and wagons. 

When passing behind a street car look out for vehicles approaching from 
the opposite direction. 

Do not jump on or off a moving street car; wait until the car stops. 

When carrying an umbrf 11a do not permit it to obstruct your view. 

FOR MOTORISTS 
ALWAYS BE CONSIDERATE 

Go slow, passing children or vehicles, around corners, approaching crossings . 
Stop! At railroad crossings — behind street cars taking on or discharging 
passengers. 

Give warning signal of your approach and keep to the right. 

Give warning signal when stopping or turning. 

Use tire chains on wet and slippery streets. 

Remove headlight glare. 

Be sure your brakes are in good working order; inspect them frequently. 

Include a fire extinguisher on your car equipment — "You never can tell." 

Have your car under perfect control for a quick stop. 

Never race with a train for a crossing. 

Never attempt to cross without first making sure that it can be done safely. 

Obey warning signals given by bells, gongs, and watchmen. 

Stop when crossing gates are lowered for passing trains. 

"And the end is that the workman shall live to enjoy the fruit of his labor; 
that his mother shall have the comfort of his arm in her age; that his wife shall 
not be untimely a widow; that his children shall have a father, and that cripples 
and hopeless wrecks who were once strong men shall not longer be a by-product 
of industry." P. B. Juhnke. 

"The Safety Movement Isn't a Theory — Its' a Crusade." 



FIRE PREVENTION DAY 

OCTOBER 9TH 

There is a steadily growing conviction that the tremenduous evil of prevent- 
able fire, with its shocking annual toll of 15,000 human lives destroyed and 
$250,000,000 to $300,000,000 worth of property lost, must not remain unchal- 
lenged. And the majority of these fires are caused through carelessness and 
ignorance of the simplest preventative measures. 

It may be easily realized that while all children are instinctively interested 
in fire, it is not such an easy matter to arouse their interest in fire prevention. 
That fire prevention should be practiced in school rooms calls for no discussion ; 
but that it should be taught in school rooms is a comparatively new doctrine. 
But why should it not be taught? A few minutes a week spent in this study 
will make for good citizenship, improved personal habits, larger consideration 
for the welfare of others, better home conditions, and safer communities. How 
many other studies have as much to recommend them? 

It is well worth while to observe Fire Prevention Day in our schools; to 
impress upon the minds of the children the necessity of combating this enemy 
of our personal and public safety. 

ORIGIN OF CONFLAGRATIONS 

"This is the anniversary of the Chicago Fire. Like most of the great con- 
flagrations of the world, and like most smaller fires, it was started by an easily 
preventable cause. Mrs. O'Leary's famous cow, which kicked over a lamp in a 
stable, started that conflagration, which laid waste three and one-half square 
miles, destroyed 17,450 buildings, killed 200 people and made 98,500 homeless. 
The Baltimore conflagration in 1904, destroying $85,000,000 of property in the 
heart of the business district, was started by a lighted match carelessly thrown 
down a grating over the basement windows of a wholesale store, where a pile of 
rubbish soon flamed up and started a fire which spread over 180 acres. The 
Bangor conflagration was started by a cigarette thrown down in the straw in 
a shed in which some men were playing cards. 

"These are the conspicuous cases, but the great majority of every -day fires 
are due to the same kind of carelessness and are as easily preventable by proper 
precaution. These little carelessness fires, taken together, burn up hundreds 
of millions of property and destroy thousands of lives. They exhaust the na- 
tional wealth, they affect the prosperity of the country, and they endanger the 
lives of the people. They can be stopped if men, women and children will be 
careful instead of reckless, and to encourage that, and enforce a sense of indi- 
vidual responsibility for the fire waste, is the purpose of Fire Prevention Day.'. 

DATA FOR USE IN FIRE AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION DAY 

Fire and Accident Prevention Day is an important factor in the campaign 
for the conservation of the national resources by reducing the preventable fire 
waste of the country and the terrible toll of life and accidents. 

It is specially important this year in view of the national campaign for the 
conservation of food stuffs and manufactured resources to reduce the high cost 
of living, and the necessity of maintaining the earning power and production 
of the country. 



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The fire losses in the United States and Canada in 1920 were $269,000,775. 
So far this year they are over $40,000,000 larger than the same period last year. 
The state fire marshals and fire prevention authorities generally agree that 75 
per cent of these fires are due to preventable causes, and could easily be avoided 
by the exercise of reasonable precaution, individual and municipal. 

The loss in earning power due to preventable accidents is over two billion 
dollars a year. 

Over 15,000 are killed and 50,000 injured annually as a result of fire. 

The fire losses and the cost of fire prevention in the United States amount 
to annually $700,000,000. 

The annual per capita fire waste in the United States is $2.50; in Europe 
33 cents. Reason: the latter has better construction, less carelessness and 
increased responsibility. 

An ounce of fire prevention is worth a pound of fire extinguishment. The 
way to get lower insurance rates is to have fewer fires. 

REFERENCES 

Fire protection in public schools — by Division of Education, Russell Sage 
Foundation, New York. 

National Fire Protection Association Quarterlies. 

Rules for Fire Prevention in public schools — by Board of Education, N.Y.C. 

Safeguarding America Against Fire. A magazine issued by the National 
Board of Fire Underwirters, New York City. 

Fire Protection for Schools. November 1919. The National Fire Protec- 
tion Association, Boston, Mass. 

Safeguarding the Home against Fire. The United States Bureau of Edu- 
cation, Washington, D. C. 

Bulletins and Reports issued by the State Fire Marshal, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — The Star Spangled Banner. 

Reading of Proclamations and Letters. 
Address — Superintendent, Teacher or Member of Board of Education. 
Talk — Uniformed member of Fire Department. 

Song — Fire Prevention Day Anthem. (Tune, "Maryland, My Maryland") 
Essay — The best essay by a Boy. 
Essay — The best essay by a Girl. 
Song — America. 
The Fire Drill. 

Fire Loss in Oklahoma for Eight Years. 

1912 $2,193,084.80 1916 $4,509,519.11 

1913 2147,155.34 1917 5,555,656.23 

1914 2,682,355.10 1918 2,287,736.67 

1915 3,375,652.48 1919 2,987,026.91 



Safety First Week 19 



CHEER UP! IT'S COMING SOON 

How dear to my heart are the scenes of 

my childhood, 
When fond recollections present them to 

view; 
The church Christmas tree and the pres- 
ents upon it, 
Some of them hangovers and others 

brand new. 
How well I remember my dear Uncle 

Peter, 
Who played Santa Claus. How we all 

used to grin 
At the old bearskin coat that we knew 

in a j iffy, 
And the white cotton whiskers that 

hung on his chin, 
The time-honored whiskers, 
The long, stringy whiskers, 
The loose-fitting whiskers that hung on 

his chin. 

How oft I recall that sad evening when 

uncle 
Leaned over a candle and set them afire ; 
He singed off his hair and his mustache 

and eyebrows, 
And upset the preacher, the tree and 

the choir. 
The fire brigade came and the hose turned 

upon him, 
But he ran around making a terrible 

din: 
He burned up the parsonage, church and 

the stable, 
With flames from the whiskers that 

hung from his chin. 
The fuzzy old whiskers, 
The quick-lighting whiskers, 
The fast-burning whiskers that hung 

from his chin. 

— R. K. M. in the New York Evening Mail. 



COLUMBUS DAY 
OCTOBER 12th 

At ten o'clock on the night of Thursday, October 1 1th, 1492 Admiral Christo- 
pher Columbus, standing upon the poop deck of his flagship, the SANTA MARIA, 
saw a light moving as though borne by a man upon the shore two leagues away. 
He called his officers around him and pointed out the light. It disappeared. 
Soon it reappeared. They knew, then, that the Great Discovery had been made. 
At dawn he went ashore — the first European in connected history to set foot on 
the land of America. 

The story of his tireless efforts in the face of disbelief and discouragements, 
his unbounded faith and undaunted courage, falls into pleasing harmony with the 
spirit of the land which he discovered. 

As our first pioneer, the actual as well as the constructive discoverer of 
America, Columbus deserves a worthy place in our conscious thought. His 
spirit is the spirit which has made America. Bringing this thought to the minds 
of our school children will make the observance of the day well worth while. 

The largest of the three ships that carried Christopher Columbus and his 
crew on their memorable voyage in 1492 was only 90 feet long. Other larger 
vessels were available, but Columbus preferred the smaller ones because he 
thought that the earth was much smaller than it is now known to be and expected 
to have to sail through bays, rivers, straits and channels requiring boats that could 
navigate in shallow waters. 

THE MAN COLUMBUS 

"Columbus was a man of noble and commanding presence, tall and power- 
fully built, with fair, ruddy complexion and keen blue-gray eyes that easily 
kindled, while his waving white hair must have been picturesque. His manner 
was at once courteous and cordial, and his conversation charming, so that stran- 
gers were quickly won, and in friends who knew him well he inspired strong 
affection and respect. There was an indefinable air of authority about him as 
befitted a man of great heart and lofty thoughts. Out of those kindling eyes 
looked a grand and poetic soul, touched with that divine spark of religious enthus- 
iasm which makes true genius." — Las Casas, Historia. 

REFERENCES 

"American Anniversaries," Dillon; P. R. Dillon Pub. Co , New York 
The diary of Columbus ; any library. 

POEMS 

Columbus. — Joaquin Miller 
America for Me. — Van Dyke. 
Opportunity. — E. R. Sill 
Opportunity. — J.J. Ingalls. 



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SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — America . 

Essay — Columbus and his work. 

Address — Columbus, the man. 

Song 

QUOTATIONS 

One example is worth a thousand arguments. — Gladstone. 

Be sure you are right, then go ahead. — Davy Crockett. 

God's best gift to us is that He gives not things, but opportunities. 

—Alice W. Rollins. 

Perseverance is a great element of success. — Longfellow 

Out of the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. — Emerson 



ELECTION DAY 

Election Day comes on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 
and it is a legal holiday. On that day every American citizen has the opportunity 
of exercising his right of suffrage. Every person living in the United States should 
be a citizen of the United States. 

The Secretary of the Interior has given five reasons why the foreign born 
should become citizens. They are as follows: 

(1) Because that is the only method by which this country can remain 
a democracy. 

(2) Because for America's sake we wish those here to think as we do, 
live as we do, and have the hopes that we have for this country. 

(3) Because the presence of a large body of people who are not citizens 
in a country gives birth to enmity on both sides. 

(4) Because we want the people who live here to feel a responsibility 
for the conditions that exist here and that their complaint is against themselves, 
not against another class in the community. 

(5) Because if America is not good enough to hold the entire loyalty and 
affection of anyone, he should make his living in the country which has his 
affection and loyalty. 

The exercise of the suffrage right on Election Day is the privilege, not only, 
but an obligation which every good citizen of the United States owes to himself 
and to his country. 

REFERENCES 

Office of the State Election Board. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song. 

Essay — "Election Day and what it means to every citizen." 

Paper on "The Australian Ballot system." 

General discussion on the workings of the election machinery. 

AMERICAN IDEALS 

I'd rather be American than any other race I know: 

I'd rather see the Stars and Stripes above me everywhere I go 

Than any other flag that flies, for no man, whoso'er he be, 

Can boast a better land than this which daily shelters mine and me. 

— Edgar A. Guest. 

THE DUTIES OF AMERICANS 

1. Every man, woman and child should be able to read and write the 
English language. 

2. Every citizen should be acquainted with two great American documents : 
The Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States. 



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3. Every citizen should be acquainted with the general principles of the 
American government 

4. Every citizen should vote, if entitled to do so. Great progress can be 
made through the ballot box. 

5. We should be a nation of workers and savers and thus acquire property. 
This makes us economically independent, and adds to our national wealth. 

6. We should learn to eliminate waste. 

7. Every citizen should be deeply interested in his country, and in its 
development, and in the advancement of our national life. 

8. Each citizen should help to give bis country a large place among the 
nations of the world. This applies to our international relations, fore ign commerce 
and integrity. 

9. Every citizen should be cultivating a larger brotherhood. 

We are peculiarly blessed in this country by co-mingling of many nationali- 
ties. We have learned to respect one another; we have an excellent basis in our 
national life for extending the idea of brotherhood. 

— Educational News Bulletin. 

THE RIGHT KIND OF AN AMERICAN 

Here is a description of an American that all boys and girls must make 
themselves fit into: 

1 . An American must love liberty. 

2. He must know how to use his hands and his brains. 

3. He must master the English language. 

4. He must honor the United States above all countries. 

5. He must serve his country every day. 

No matter whether you were born in America or in Europe — if these five 
sentences describe you, you are really an American. 

— My Country. 



ARMISTICE DAY 

NOVEMBER 11TH 

Armistice Day should be observed because of it's international significance. 
The day should be hallowed by the peoples of the world because it marked the 
end of the greatest of wars and heralded the dawn of peace. 

In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 
the armistice was signed. And the mothers and wives of the world were relieved 
from the heavy load of worry and anxiety over their loved ones; commerce and 
education threw off the lethargy which war had imposed and looked ahead with 
clearer vision and renewed energy; governments were born again; and the peoples 
of the world rejoiced in common cause. 

It is fitting that the significance of this day be impressed upon the minds of 
tjie school children of Oklahoma typifying anew, as it does, the truth that govern- 
ments of, by, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 




THE SOLDIER'S DREAM— Edward Detaille 



THE AMERICAN'S GREED 

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, 
by the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; 
a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect 
Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, 
justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and 
fortunes. 

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its 
Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against all 
enemies. — William Tyler Page. 



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REFERENCES 

The files of newspapers for the month of November 1918. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Invocation 

Music — America the Beautiful 

Five Minute Speech, by a Student — Armistice Day, What It Means. 

Music — Something appropriate. 

Address — A citizen or student. 

Solo — >In Flanders Field. 

Pantomine — To America. 

Bugle Call, Reveille. 

Ex-soldiers who are also ex-students march to stage and stand at atten- 
tion. 
Reading of School Roll of Honor. 
Taps — Reading of names of dead who were students. 
Music — Star Spangled Banner. 



STATEHOOD DAY 

NOVEMBER 16 
BRIEF ABSTRACT OF TITLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA 

Mar. 10, 1804 Louisiana transferred to The United States at St. Louis. 

Aug 24, 1818 The Quapaws cede all land south of South Canadian River to 

The United States. 
Sept. 25, 1818 The Osages cede land ("Lovely's Purchase") east of Arkansas 

River to The United States. 
Oct. 18, 1820 The United States cedes all lands south of Arkansas and South 

Canadian Rivers to the Choctaws. 
May 26, 1824 An act of Congress fixed the western boundary of Arkansas 

at a line drawn south to Red River from a point forty miles 

west from the present northwest corner of that state. 
Mar 7, 1825 The United States cedes land north of South Canadian River 

to the Creeks. 
Nov. 7, 1825 The United States cedes land in northeastern Oklahoma to 

Shawnees. 
Oct. 13, 1827 All of Arkansas that was within what is the present limits of 

Oklahoma was constituted as Lovely County, Arkansas. 

The United States cedes lands to the Cherokee s. 

Lovely County, Arkansas extinguished by an act of the Arkan- 
sas Legislature. 

The Seminoles acquire rights with the Creeks. 

The Chickasaws acquire rights with the Choctaws. 

Texas cedes "No Man's Land" to The United States. 

The "Unassigned Lands" opened to settlement. 

Oklahoma Territory created. 

The Iowa, Pottawatomie, Sac and Fox reservations opened. 

The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations opened. 

The Cherokee Outlet, Kansas and Nez Perce reservations opened. 

Pawnee allotment agreement 

Kickapoo reservation opened. 

Greer County adjudged by The United States Supreme Court 

to be a part of Oklahoma. 
Apr. 23, 1897 The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations conclude the "Atoka 

Agreement" by which they agree to the allotment of their 

lands. 
Dec. 16, 1897 Seminole allotment agreement. 
May 25, 1901 Creek Allotment agreement. 

Aug. 6, 1901 Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations opened. 
Aug. 7, 1902 Cherokee allotment agreement 
Jan. 25, 1906 Osage allotment Act. 
Nov. 16, 1907 Statehood. — Dr. Emmet Starr. 

GOVERNORS OF OKLAHOMA 

A list of the territorial and state governors of Oklahoma follows: Territorial 
George W. Steel, from May, 1890 to October, 1891 ; Abram J. Seay, October, 1891 
to April, 1892; William C. Renfrow, April, 1892 to May 1897; Cassius M. Barnes 



May 28, 


1828 


Oct. 17, 


1828 


Apr. 12, 


1834 


Mar. 24, 


1837 


Dec. 30, 


1850 


Apr. 22, 


1889 


June 6, 


1890 


Sept. 22, 


1891 


Apr. 19, 


1892 


Sept. 16, 


1892 


Mar. 3, 


1893 


May 23, 


1893 


Mar. 16, 


1896 



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May 1897 to May 1901; William M. Jenkins, May 1901 to November 1901; 
Thompson B. Ferguson, November, 1901 to January, 1906; Frank Frantz, 
January, 1906 to November 16, 1907. State — Charles N. Haskell, November 
16, 1907 to January, 1911; Lee Cruce, January, 1911 to January, 1915; Robert 
L. Williams, January, 1915 to January, 1919; J. B. A. Robertson, January, 
1919 to date. 

STATE SEAL 

In the center shall be a five pointed star, with one ray directed upward. 
The center of the star shall contain the central device of the seal of the Territory 
of Oklahoma, including the words, "Labor Omnia Vincit." The upper left 
hand ray shall contain the symbol of the ancient seal of the Cherokee Nation, 
namely: A seven .pointed star partially surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves. 
The ray directed upward shall contain the symbol of the ancient seal of the Chick- 
asaw Nation, namely: An Indian warrior standing upright with bow and shield. 
The lower left hand ray shall contain the symbol of the ancient seal of the Creek 
Nation, namely: A sheaf of wheat and plow. The upper right hand ray shall 
contain the symbol of the ancient seal of the Choctaw Nation, namely: A toma- 
hawk, bow, and three crossed arrows. The lower right hand ray shall contain 
the symbol of the ancient seal of the Seminole Nation, namely: A village with 
houses and factory beside a lake upon which an Indian is paddling a canoe. 
Surrounding the central star and grouped between its rays shall be forty-five 
small stars, divided into five clusters of nine stars each representing the forty- 
five states of the Union, to which the forty-sixth is now added. In a circular 
band surrounding the whole device shall be inscribed, "GREAT SEAL OF 
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, 1907." 

STATE FLOWER 

Floral Emblem — State Emblem: That the mistletoe be hereby designated 
and adopted as the floral emblem of the State of Oklahoma: that this act be 
immediately in force upon its passage and approval. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Flag Salute. 

Song — "Oklahoma, * ' 

Recitation — "Land of My Dreaming," by George Riley Hall. 

Essay — Early Settlers. 

Song. 

Recitation — "Where the West Begins," by Arthur Chapman. 

Essay — "Oklahoma Geography." 

Essay — "Oklahoma History." 

Song — "Star Spangled Banner." 

The truth is that America was planned for a nation of equals. It gives 
fair play to all who know how to play the game — We must all be Americans. 
It is the duty of every newcomer to our shores to learn English and become 
naturalized and become a fullfledged American as soon as possible. It is the duty 
of older Americans to help him in every way. Only if our people are Americans 
in speech and custom and understanding can our land of fair play reach its full 
promise of good-will to all men — Geoffrey Parsons. 



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MY PATRIOTIC CREED 

I believe 

In my country and her. destiny, 

In the great dream of her founders, 

In her place among the nations, 

In her ideals. 

I believe 

That her democracy must be protected, 

Her privileges cherished, 

Her freedom defended. 

I believe 

That, humbly before the Almighty, 

But proudly before all mankind, 

We must safeguard her standard, 

The vision of her Washington, 

The martyrdom of her Lincoln, 

With the patriotic ardor 

Of the minutemen 

And the boys in blue 

Of her glorious past. 

I believe 

In loyalty to my country 

Firm, unchanging, absolute. 

Thou in whose sight 

A thousand years are but as yesterday 

And as a watch in the night. 

Help me 

In my weakness 

To make real 

What I believe. — New York Times. 

POEMS 

"L* Envoi" — Rudyard Kipling. 
"The Wise Investor" — Walt Mason. 
"Give Us Strong Men," — J. G. Holland. 
"The Children's Song," — Rudyard Kipling. 

SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPOSITION 

Natural resources of Oklahoma. 

Farming in Oklahoma. 

An Oklahoma Poultry Farm. 

Club Work for Boys and Girls in Oklahoma. 

Consolidated Schools. 

Oklahoma's State Capitol Building. 

Good Roads. 

The Shooting of Oil Wells. 

Cotton Crops. 

State Government. 



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Oklahoma Cities. 

Battleship "Oklahoma." 

Oklahoma State Banks. 

The Origin and Meaning of Local Names. 

The County Newspapers. 

Pioneers of the County and the Location of their Settlement. 

A Sketch of the Aboriginal Tribal Ownership of the Country. 

Oklahoma's Game Laws. 

The Vanishing Wild Birds. 



THANKSGIVING DAY 

THE LAST THURSDAY IN NOVEMBER 

Thanksgiving Day is the one national festival which turns on home life. 
It is not a day of ecclesiastical saints. It is not a national anniversary. It is 
not a day celebrating a religious event. It is a day of Nature. It is a day of 
thanksgiving for the year's history. And it must pivot on the household. A 
typical Thanksgiving dinner represents everything that has grown in all the sum- 
mer, fit to make glad the heart of man. It is not a riotous feast. It is a table 
piled high, among the group of rollicking young and the sober joy of the old, 
with the treasures of the growing year, accepted with rejoicing and interchange of 
many festivities as a token of gratitude to Almighty God. 

Remsmber God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide 
the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one 
day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude ! — Henry Ward Beecher 

The day is fixed by proclamation of the President and the Governors of 
the States. The earliest harvest thanksgiving in America was kept by the 
Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621, and was repeated often 
during that and the ensuing century. Washington appointed such a day in 
1789 after the adoption of the Constitution, and in 1795, for the general benefits 
and welfare of the nation. Since 1863, the Presidents have always issued proc- 
lamations appointing the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Opening Song — America. 

Reading of President's or Governor's Thanksgiving Proclamation. 

Story — The First Thanksgiving. 

Recitation — Autumn Fires — R. L. Stevenson. 

Song — Over the River and through the Wood. 

Recitation — A Turkey's Soliloquy — Dora H. Stockman. 

Recitation — Thankful? You Bet — Edmund Vance Cooke. 

Essay — How to Celebrate Thanksgiving. 

Song — The Corn Song — (Tune, Auld Lang Syne) — -Whittier. 

The school room should be decorated with flags, bunting, festoons of leaves' 
nuts, grains and fruits, tied with red, white and blue ribbons or stripes of tissue 
paper. Golden pumpkins are to be much in evidence 

PICTURE STUDIES (Perry Pictures) 

Embarkation of the Pilgrims. (1331) 
Landing of the Pilgrims. (1332) 
Plymouth Rock. (1333) 
John Alden and Priscilla. (1338) 
Pilgrims Going to Church. (1339) 
Miles Standish and His Soldiers. (1340) 




..... 



THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAYFLOWER— Bo ugh ton 



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POEMS 

A Thanksgiving Wooing— Minna Irving. 

At Grandma's — M. Louise Ford 

The First Thanksgiving Day — Margaret E. Preston 

Landing of the Pilgrims — Hemans 

When the Frost is on the Pumpkin — Riley 

Father, We Thank Thee — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

A Good Thanksgiving — Marian Douglas 

Thr Harvest Moon- — Longfellow 

The Mayflower — Whittier 

A Thanksgiving — Lucy Larcom 

ESSAY SUBJECTS 

Origin of Thanksgiving 

The Pilgrims 

Home Life in Colonial Days. 

QUOTATIONS 

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings — Whipple. 

If happiness has not her seat 
And center in the breast; 
We may be wise, or rich or great, 
But never can be blest. — Burns. 

A grateful heart is itself a prayer — Lessing. 

Thank God for the beauty broadcast 

Over our own dear land; 

Thank God, who tofeed his hildren, 

Opens his bounteous hand; 

Thank God for the lavish harvests. 

Thank Him from strand to strand — Margaret Sangster. 

"Kindness is the music of good-will to men, and on thisharp the smallest 
fingers may play Heaven's sweetest tones on earth. ' 

Bent low, by Autumn's wind and rain, through husks that, dry and sere, 
Unfolded from their ripened charge, shone out the yellow ear: 
Beneath, the turnip lay concealed, in many a verdant fold, 
And glistened in the slanting light the pumpkin's sphere of gold. 

— Whittier. 
"All good gifts around us 
Are sent from Heaven above. 
Then let us thank the Father 
With gratitude and love." 



LIBRARY DAY 

NOVEMBER 25th 

Library Day is most fittingly observed on November 25th, the birthday 
of Andrew Carnegie, whose stimulation of a world wide library movement is 
one of the most important factors in present day educational development. 

Library Day offers to the teacher an opportunity for creating an interest 
in good books and for the development of the school library. If possible talks 
on the use of a library and use and care of books should be given by librarian of 
school or Public Library and library cards may also be supplied each pupil. 

No greater possibility exists in the childs educational life than the possi- 
bility of self education in the reading of great books. Boys and girls will read. 
You have spent many valuable hours in teaching them HOW to read, and it 
is now most important they should know WHAT to read. Much valuable 
time is wasted because they cannot discriminate between good and bad books. 
"If you find a twelve-year-old addicted to juveniles, and to nothing else, you 
may as well give the poor creature up." 

Library Day with its talks on "worth while" books, their care and keeping, 
readings from famous books etc. will inspire a child with enthusiasm for a school 
library. 

"Where I maie read all at my ease 
Both of the newe and olde, 
For a jolly good book whereon to looke 
Is better to me than gold." 

—Mrs. J. R. Dale, 

Secy Oklahoma Library Commission 

"They did not seem like books to him 

But Heroes, Martyrs, Saints — themselves, 

The things they told of, not mere books, 

Ranged grimly on the oaken shelf." — Aldrich 

SUGGESTIONS FOR PROGRAM 

Song — The Poet and the Child — Whittier 

Recitation — Books are Soldiers — Wynne 

Essay (by girl) — Andrew Carnegie, The Friend of Libraries 

Story (by boy) — From Kipling or "Uncle Remus" 

Talk (by boy) — Why we need Books and Libraries 

Poem — From Field or Riley 

Story (by girl) — Of the "Blue Bird" or "Peter Pan" 

Review (by boy) — The Funniest Book I Ever Read 

Dramatics — Scene from "Birds Christmas Carol" 

Contests — Popular vote for favorite characters in books. 

Names of ten receiving most votes to be written on board. 
Contest — Pupils to make list of books they prefer Best list to be written on 

board. 



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"The most imperative duty of the state is the universal education of the 
masses. No money which can be usefully spent for this indispensible end 
should be denied. Public sentiment should, on the contrary, approve the doc- 
trine that the more that can be judiciously spent, the better for the country. 
There is no insurance of nations so cheap as the enlightenment of the people." 

— Andrew Carnegie 

Any of the following books damatizsd and acted by boys and girls may be 
used in connection with Library Day Programs. 

Little Women — Alcott 

Master Skylark — Burnett 

Barnaby Lee — Bennett 

Secret Garden — Bennett 

Through the Looking Glass — Carroll 

Will Shakespeare, Little Lad — Clark 

Washington, the Spy — Cooper 

The Toy Shop — Gerry 

Mother Goose Party — Mother Goose 

Birds Christmas Carol — Wiggin 

TOPICS FOR ESSAYS 

The Character in a Book I should like to be. 

The Character in a book I should like to have for a friend. 

The Kind of a Book I really like to read. 

Sketch of the life of Louisa M. Alcott. 

How the Free Traveling Libraries help our School. 

How Books are made. 

My Favorite Hero. 

Book Friends in our School Library. 

REFERENCES 

Childrens Books and Reading — Moses 

Childrens Reading — Olcott 

Books for boys and girls of Oklahoma — Oklahoma Library Commission 

Girls in Bookland — Hawthorne 

Great books as Life Teachers — Hillis 

Literature for Children — Lowe 

Literature in the Elementary School — Mac Clintock 

Library and School — Bostwick 

Plays for School Children — Lutkenhouse 

Plays, Pantomines, and Tableaux for Children — Smith 

St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas — Century Co. 



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RIDDLE 
(FOR BLACKBOARD) 

My house is very large and tall 
And ranged on shelves near every wall 
A million friends there wait for me 
In patient, wise security. 
They know far more than you or I 
They are the dreamers of the sky 
They are the friends that never die. 

Answer — The Library 

QUOTATIONS 

Magic casements, open wide' 
Ebb and flow, thou fairy tide' 
Eager-heart, the Dauntless lad 
Glimpses galleys, armor clad, 
Manned by heroes, sailing home 
From the Land of Mosque and Dome. 
Close not casements, till their eyes 
Visions see of Paradise. 

— N. A. Smith 

He who is not possessed of such a book as will dispel many doubts, point 
out hidden treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all things is ever an ignorant 
man. — From old Maxim 

Writers are to their readers little new worlds to be explored; and each traveler 
in the realm of literature must needs have a favorite hunting ground which, 
in his good will — he would wish others to share with him. — Galsworthy 

Books are never peevish, never traitorous, never speak unless spoken to, 
they have a larger service in the sympathies that they engender by the laughter 
and the tears they evoke; bringing together the distant and the diverse, the old 
and the young., the rich and poor, the cheerful and forlorn, the men to whom 
opportunity is a gift and the man for whom it must be a struggle ; and we glow 
with recognition of this as a social servics, human and far-reaching. 

— -Herbert Putman 

A little gate my book can be 
That leads to fields of minstrelsy, 
And though you think I sit at home 
Afar in foreign fields I roam. 



-Wynne 



WHAT THE BOOK SAID TO THE BOY 

"You are old., little book," the small boysaid, 
"Yet your pages are still clean and white, 
Your covers are stiff and your corners are straight, 
Do you think at your age it is right?" 



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"In my youth," said the book, 

"I came into the hands of children who 

handled with care, 
They opened me gently, their fingers were clean, 
My margins they kept clean and fair. 

They never used pencils as book marks, 

or tried 
To pull me a part in their strife, 
With such care and treatment, my strength 

and my looks 
Will last me the rest of my life." 

— Anne T. Eaton 

O, child, O, youth, a treasure house behold 
A store more precious than the purest gold. 
The poet from all times and from all lands 
Have given here into your blessed hands. 
And ye inherit all the treasure vast 
That hath been left you by the storied past. 

— Thomas 

A house without books is like a room without windows. Mann 

A good book is a good friend. It will talk when you want it to talk. It 
will keep silent, when you want it to keep silent. And a library is a collection 
of friends. Abbott 

Great books are great souls, which have left the bodies of great beings, 
and have come to talk to us. Swing 

Good books, are like goods friends, are few and chosen. The more select, 
the more enjoyable. Chandler 

He who has not been "presented to the freedom of literature" has not waked 
up. He can't see, he can't hear, he can't feel in any full sense. He can only 
eat his dinner. Bostwick 

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes 
you think. — McCosh 

FOR BLACKBOARD 

I I am the recorder of the ages. 

A I speak every language under the sun and enter every corner of the earth. 

M I bring information, inspiration and recreation to all mankind. 

T I am the enemy of ignorance and slavery, the ally of enlightenment and 

liberty. 
H I am always ready to commune with man, to quicken his being, to spur 

him on, to show him the way. 
E I treat all persons alike, creed or condition. 
B I have power to stretch man's vision, to deepen his feeling, to better his 

business and to enrich his life. 
O I am a true friend, a wise counsellor and a faithful guide. 
O I am as silent as gravitation, pliant and powerful as the electric current 

and enduring as the everlasting hills. 
K I AM THE BOOK. 



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Safe in our seats with book in hand, 
We travel swiftly through the land, 
We sail the sea, the sky, and all, 
And never fear to sink or fall. 
We make far journeys every day 
But never stay abroad to play. 

— Wynne 

I know a man who thinks he's poor, 
But he is rich indeed, 
He has a chair, a friend who's sure 
And three good books to read. 

— Wynne 

My book holds many stories 
Wrapped tightly in itself 
And yet it never makes a noise 
But waits upon my shelf, 
Until I come and take it; 
Then soon my book and I 
Are sailing on a fairy sea 
Or floating in the sky. 
My book and heart 
Must never part. 



HEALTH CRUSADE WEEK 

DECEMBER 

The Modern Health Crusade is essentially a system of teaching that imparts 
good health habits. Under it pupils DO the duties explained in the text-books 
on hygiene and physiology, and interest is given to their study. 

Literally millions of school children from the first to the twelfth grades, 
have enlisted as workers in the Crusade movement. This success is due to the 
interest in health aroused by introducing the elements of play, romance and com- 
position into the study and practice of hygiene, and by a concrete program with 
tangible rewards. The Crusade damatizes the pursuit of health in a modern 
chivalry. Pupils acquire knightly honors through fidelity to health duites. 

Any school in Oklahoma may give its pupils the benefit of the Crusade 
system. It is primarily horn? work and links the home and the school co-opera- 
tively. For explanation of the Crusade and the suggested programs mentioned 
below, the teacher should secure the Manual by application to the Oklahoma 
Tuberculosis Association, 3 1 5 Oklahoman Building, Oklahoma City. 

MODERN HEALTH CRUSADE WEEK 

Superintendent R. H. Wilson has designated December 5th, to 9th, 
as Health Crusade Week in the public schools of the State of Oklahoma. This 
week is to be indeed a "Health Week." making use of the various subjects 
such as physiology, composition and drawing, for the presentation of health 
facts. The general program of the week is based on the Health Chores of the 
Modern Health Crusade. 

SUGGESTED DAILY PROGRAMS 

MONDAY 

Opening Exercises. 

1. Teacher explains purpose of Christmas seal sale. 

(a) Proceeds help secure state tuberculosis sanatorium. 

2. Health Crusade song, Tune "Pack Up Your Troubles." 
Physiology. Subject: Chores 1-2-3. Communicable Diseases. 

1. Source of infection; — body discharges. 

2. Channel of infection; — inhalation, ingestion. 

3. Manner of transmitting infection; — hands. 

4. Route of infection 



Germ Carrier — His Hands 



My hands — my Mouth 



Telephone Receiver 

Doorknob 

Books 

Money 

Composition. Suggested Subjects: 

1 . How Typhoid Fever is Spread by the Hands. 

2. How to Prevent Disease Germs getting into the Mouth. 

3. Health Value of Clean Hands. 

Drawing. Similar subjects can be made use of for drawing as for compo- 
position. 



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TUESDAY 

Opening Exercises. 

1 . Inspection of Hands and Nails. 

2. Crusader's Song, Page 21 — Manual. 

3. What the Christmas seal sale is and does, (b) Makes possible 
Free Tuberculosis Clinics. 

Physiology. Subject — Chores 4-5. 

1. The danger of spitting, coughing, sneezing. Presented as a con- 
tinuation of yesterday's subject. Communicable Diseases. 

2. Hygiene of the teeth. 

a. Decay due to action of bacteria. 

b. Action of bacteria favored by deposit of tartar. 

c. Food supply for bacteria and favorable conditions for action 
removed by use of tooth brush. 

d. Proper method for using tooth brush. 

Composition. Suggested Subjects: 

1 . Bacteria and decay of teeth. 

2. What makes teeth ache. 

3. A clean mouth, — what it is and what it does. 

4. Why I do not spit. 

5. The cost of a sneeze. 

6. Hygienic reasons for Chautauqua salute being no longer popular. 

WEDNESDAY 

Opening Exercises. 

1. Tooth brush drill, see Manual, Page 14. 

2. What the Christmas sale sale is and does, (c) "Providesthe 
Public Health Nurse." 

3. Song — "This is the Way we all Keep Well," — Manual, Page" 22. 
Physiology. Subject: Hygiene of Recreation and Rest. Chores 6 and 7. 

1. Time. 

a. Morning or evening. 

b. Too much of either is unhygienic. 

2. Place. 

a. Open Air. 

3. Manner. 

a. Reclining, Sitting, Sleeping. 

Composition. Subjects: 

1 . My favorite play out of doors. 

2. My favorite play indoors with windows open. 

3. How to keep warm at night, — with windows open. 

4. The Windows Open. 



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THURSDAY 

Opening Exercises. 

1. Setting up Exercises. See Manual, Page 15. 

2. What the Seal Sale is and does, (d) Makes possible the Modern 
Health Crusade. 

3. Song — "Happy Young Crusaders." Manual. Page 21. 

Physiology. Subjects: Hygienic Eating and Drinking. Chores 8-9. 

1 . Food. 

a. Kind. 

b. Quantity. 

c. Food handlers. 

2. Water as a Food. 

a. Source of pure drinking water. 

b. How stored and protected to keep pure. 

c. Unhygienic to use too much at meal time. 

1 . Tends to insufficient mastication. 

2. Tends to overeating. 

3. Tea and Coffee. 

a. Are not foods, — contain caffein and tannic acid. 

b. Affect nervous system. 

c. Retard gastric digestion. 

Composition. Suggested Subjects; 

1 . The Story of a Glass of Drinking Water. 

2. A properly constructed well. 

3. Food and Health. 

FRIDAY 

Opening Exercises. 

1. Song, — "Clean Up Song." Tune — Marching Through Georgia. 

2. Organization for Seal Sale based upon conference with local seal 

sale chairman. 

3. Setting Up Exercises. See Manual, Page 15 

Physiology. Subject: Hygiene of Posture, Mental Attitude and Bath. 
Chores 10-11. 

1. Correct posture prevents crowding of internal organs. "It is not 

the load which breaks the bearer down, but the way in which the 
load is carried." 

2. Mental Attitude influsnces Circulation, Digestion, Sleep. 

3. Bath. 

a. Stimulating. 

b. Cleansing. 

c. Bsst time for taking. 

Composition. Suggested Subjects; 

1 . The Boy who Slouches. 

2. The Girl who Slouches. 

3. The Story of the Christmas Seal. 

4. Why I sell Christmas Seals. 



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FREE HEALTH LITERATURE 

Distributed by the Oklahoma Tuberculosis Association. 
315 Oklahoman Bldg., Oklahoma City. 

1. SCHOOL HYGIENE. 

Health Education in Schools 

Open Air Schools 

Communicable Diseases Among School Children. 

Health Stories 

Daily Health Guide Chart (17"x28") 

Diet for the School Child 

Class Room Weight Records 

Height and Weight Cards 

2. CHILD AND INFANT WELFARE. 

My Baby 

What do Little Growing Children Need 

Is Your Child's Birth Recorded 

Breast Feeding 

Care of the Mother 

Bottle Feeding 

Feeding the Child 

Motherhood 

The Child 

All About Milk 

How to Conduct a Child Health Conference 

3. TUBERCULOSIS. 

What You Should Know About Tuberculosis 

War on Tuberculosis 

What is Tuberculosis 

How to Prevent Tuberculosis 

After the Flu is Over 

War on Consumption 

Fake Consumption Cures 

Sitting and Sleeping in the Open Air 

How to Get Well 

"Don't" Card 

4. MISCELLANEOUS AND SPECIAL REPORTS. 

Educational Service 

Aims, Methods and Accomplishments of the Oklahoma Tuberculosis 

Association. 
Some Forward Steps in the Oklahoma Tuberculosis Campaigns Fighting 

Tuberculosis in Oklahoma. 
Why Business Men Should be Interested in the Conservation of Public 

Health. 



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HEALTH MOTION PICTURES 

(These films will be loansd free. The only cost to the borrower is the expressage 
to and from the state office.) 

1. "BRINGING IT HOME",— 

Illustrates what a child welfare station can accomplish in a community. 

2. "THE MODERN HEALTH CRUSADE" — 

A fairy story emphasizing the advantage of putting into effect the 
principles of personal hygiene. (This film is especially suitable for 
presentation to school children.) 

3. "JINKS",— 

A comic cartoon film, and shows why Jinks, who lives in a tomato can 
with Mike Robe, changes his ways of unsanitary living. 

4. "THE TEMPLE OF MOLOCH",— 

Intensely dramatic, showing the need of better sanitary conditions in 
factories and industrial establishments. The story closes with a happy 
Christmas scene. 

5. "THE PRICE OF HUMAN LIVES",— 

How a beautiful daughter of a patent medicine swindler brought her 
father to realize the dreadful evil of his business. Tuberculosis Christ- 
mas seals are featured in a dramatic way. 

TUBERCULOSIS 

Extent of Tuberculosis. 

1. More than 150,000 people die of tuberculosis in the United States 
every year, and there are over one million active cases of tubercu- 
losis in this country. 

2. It is estimated that there are 3,000 deaths from tuberculosis in 
Oklahoma every year and at least 40,000 active cases. 

3. One -third of all deaths between the ages of 18 and 45 years are due 
to tuberculosis. 

4. Tuberculosis is four times as prevalent among the colored as among 
the white people. 

5. The eradication of tuberculosis in the United States would mean 
a saving of twenty-five to fifty billion dollars to the people of this 
country, and the length of the average life would be extended about 
two and one-half years. 

6. In 1904 the death rate from tuberculosis in this country was 200.7 
per 100,000 population, in 1918 the rate was only 149.1 per 100,000, 
showing a very favorable decrease in mortality from tuberculosis. 

Cause of Tuberculosis. 

1. Tuberculosis is caused by a very small germ known as the tubercle 
bacillus. 

Source of Infection. 

1. Sputum from active cases. 

2. Milk from tuberculous cows. 



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How Tuberculosis is Spread. 

1. Coughing and spitting by tuberculosis patient. 

2. Use of infected dishes and other objects. 

3. Drinking milk from tuberculous cows. 

How to Prevent Tuberculosis. — "Tuberculosis is Preventable." 

1 . Maintain and develop physical resistance by the practice of the 
principles of personal hygiene. 

a. Eat good food. 

b. Work, rest and play moderately and wholesomely. 

c. Be temperate in habits. 

d. Keep body clean. 

e. Have wholesome thoughts. 

f. Live in fresh air and clean environment. 

2. Avoid infection. 

a. Drink only pasteurized milk or milk from tuberculin tested cows. 

b. Keep hands and everything that could have become infected 
from the mouth. 

For Early Discovery of Tuberculosis. 

1 . Have thorough physical examination by competent physician every 

six months. 

2. Consult physician whenever any of the following symptoms are 
present : 

a. Persistent cough or cold lasting three weeks or longer. 

b. Loss of weight and appetite. 

c. Run-down, tired feeling. 

d. Persistent pain in the chest. 

e. Afternoon temperature. 

f. Night sweats. 

g. Spitting of blood or streaks of blood in sputum. 

How to Cure Tuberculosis. "Tuberculosis is Curable." 

1 . Early discovery of disease is necessary. 

2. Rest, wholesome food and fresh air, are required. 

(Sanatorium care insures these requisites and also eliminates 
the possiblity of infecting others.) 

3. Avoid patent medicine; advertised cures; alcohol. 

How to Eradicate Tuberculosis in Oklahoma. 

1 . People must be educated as to the nature, treatment and prevention 

of the disease. 

2. A public health nurse in every county. 

3. A free tuberculosis clinic in every county. (Free as a school is 

free.) 

4. Free sanatorium care for tuberculosis patients. Number of beds 

should be equivalent to the yearly deaths from tuberculosis. 



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The Christmas Seal Sale. 

1 . Makes possible the free distribution by the Oklahoma Tuberculosis 

Association of Literature, films and panels for educating the 
people of the state as to the nature, treatment and cure of 
tuberculosis. 

2. Helps to finance the Modern Health Crusade, which inculcates 

into the youth the practice of the principles of personal hygiene. 

3. Helps to establish free tuberculosis clinics. 

Free clinics have already been established in Oklahoma City, 
Tulsa, Muskogee, Bartlesville, Blackwell, Enid, Shawnee and 
Ardmore. 

4. Helps to get the state sanatoria at Clinton, Talihina and Boley. 

REFERENCES 

An Autobiography — E. L. Trudeau. 

Doubleday, Page & Company, New York City. 

Pulmonary Tuberculosis — Fishberg. 

Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Tuberculosis — Its Cause, Cure & Prevention — Otis. 

Thomas Y. Crowell Co. New York City. 

What You Should Know About Tuberculosis. 

Oklahoma Tuberculosis Association. 




ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS— LeRolte 



CHRISTMAS DAY 

DECEMBER 25TH 

Christmas Day is Christ's Day. The lessons and teachings of His life 
should form the theme of our thoughts on that day especially. Too often the 
mistake is made, perhaps unconsciously, of directing the thoughts of the children 
to Santa Claus rather than to Him whose birthday it is. The making of gifts 
is in accord with His example but good care should be taken to impress upon the 
minds of the children that the greatest joy to be attained in observing the day 
lies in the GIVING rather than receiving. 

Christ's life was simple. In commemorating His birthday would it not be 
well to go about it in a simple, sincere manner — a bit of song and story, a word 
about the central character of the day, a discussion on ways and means of spread- 
ing the joy of the occasion to others less fortunate, and a gift tree? 

Let us strive to make the question nearest the hearts of the children before 
and on Christmas Day be "What can I do for others" rather that "What will 
Santa Claus bring me?" 

The study of Christmas in other lands is an interesting and profitable study 
to be correlated with geography work as the Christmas season draws near. 

The children may take imaginary journeys to the different countries, joining 
in their Christmas festivities. After a class reproduction has been written, 
the best paper may be laid aside to be used in the Christmas program. 

The value of pictures in this work cannot be over estimated, and a good 
supply of them should be on hand. 

This spirit of good fellowship also finds expression in the custom which 
cities are adopting of "planting" and loading with gifts a huge Civic Christmas 
tree. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — Christmas Bells— Longfellow 

Reading — The Christmas Message 

Story — Christmas with Tiny Tim — Dickens. 

Recitation — God Bless Us — James Whitcomb Riley 

Music — Selected 

Story — The Christmas Sheaf— Phoebe Cary. 

Reading — The Coming of the Prince — Eugene Field 

Talk— Carrying Christmas to the Needy. 

Song — Joy to the World. 

Gift Tree. 

REFERENCES 

Any library — public or private. 

POEMS 

Christmas Treasures — Eugene Field. 
Christmas Bells — Longfellow. 
Tiny Tim — Sangster. 



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Ring Out, Wild Bells — Tennyson 

The Christmas Glow — Charles Crandall. 

Three Kings — Longfellow 

The Loving Cup — Margaret Sangster. 

Star of the East — Eugene Field. 

The Christmas Message — Jane Andrews. 

Christmas Everywhere — Phillips Brooks. 

O Little Town of Bethlehem — Phillips Brooks. 

Merry Christmas — Louisa M. Alcott. 

While Shepherds Watched — Margaret Deland. 

QUOTATIONS 

Awake, glad heart! get up and sing! 
It is the birthday of the King. 



Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ! 

But let it whistle as it will. 

We'll keep our merry Christmas still. 



-Vaughn. 



— Scott. 



The yearly course that brings this day about, 
Shall never see it but a holiday. 

— Shakespeare. 

I heard the bells on Christmas Day 
Their old, familiar carols play, 

And wild and sweet 

The words repeat, 
Of "Peace on earth, good-will to men." 

— Longfellow. 

CHRISTMAS PROVERBS 

Pass on to others the kindnesses you daily receive." 

Help given promptly is twice given." 

Scatter seeds of kindness." 

Strive to leave the world better than you find it." 

The hand of the giver is ever above that of the receiver." 

The heart that loveth most hath most ; of sweetness and content. 

Daily on the hearts of others we write our autographs." 

The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring." 



NEW YEAR'S DAY 
JANUARY 1ST 

The observance cf the first day of the year as a holiday is of very ancient 
origin. The celebration of the New Year begins New Year's Eve, at which time 
families, and the general public "see the New Year in," with feastings and the 
interchange of greetings and felicitations. The churches hold midnight services 
on New Year's Eve. The New Year's dinner is an important feature of the New 
Year celebration in each family, after which the old custom of receiving New 
Year calls is still generally in vogue. The President of the United States holds 
open house on New Year's Day. 

Through the mails go countless numbers of New Year's greetings and best 
wishes, and next to Christmas is a most enjoyable great day. 

Each New Year's Day is an imporcant day. The events of the past year 
are reviewed. Our successes and our failures together with their causes stand 
out clearly before us. The New Year's resolutions we make is the appeal we 
make of ourselves and the pledge that the New Year will be a better one for us 
and our world. The destiny of multitudes have been fixed by the New Year 
resolutions. The worth of this day to this world's welfare will never be fully 
known. 

The New Year Season occupies an important place in the school year and 
as such should be taken advantage of in an effective way by teachers and pupils. 
In as much as schools are usually not in session on New Year's Day the school 
days before and after January 1st should be so used as to secure for the boys 
and girls the best possible results. 

AN APPEAL TO BOYS 

This appeal to boys from David Starr Jordan is worthy of an important 
place in the schoolroom. The thinking and growing public school pupils will 
find in this an appeal to their better selves. 

"Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that your afterself — 
the man you ought to be — may in his time be possible and actual. 

"Far away in the years he is waiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul, 
are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. 

"What will you leave for him? 

"Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation: a mind trained to think 
and act; a nervous system true as a dial in its response to the truth about you? 
Will you, Boy, let him come as a man among men in his time? Or will you throw 
away his inheritance bsfore he has had the chance to touch it? Will you turn 
over to him a brain distorted; a mind diseased; a will untrained to action; a 
spinal cord grown through and through with devil grass of that vile harvest we 
call wild oats? 

"Will you let him come, taking your place, gaining through your experiences, 
hallowed through your joys, building on them his own? 



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"Or will you fling his hope away, decreeing, wanton-like, that the man you 
might have been shall never be? 

"This is your problem in life — the problem of more importance to you 
than any or all others. How will you meet it — as a man or as a fool? 

"When you answer this, we shall know what use the world can make of you." 

SELECTIONS 

"The Chambered Nautilus" 

"The New Year" — John Greenleaf Whittier. 

"A Big Resolution: If" — Rudyard Kipling. 

"Jack Frost" — Selected. 

"Now" — R. C. Skinner. 

"The Year is Going, Let Him Go" — Alfred Tennyson. 

"Opportunity" — The Outlook. 

"The Little New Year" — Anne P. Johnson. 

"In God's Keeping" —Arthur E. Haynes. 

"A Happy New Year" — Margaret E. Sangster. 

A NEW YEAR PLEDGE 

A life is measured by what we put into the world. I shall make this year 
more valuable than any previous one by crowding more service into it. 

— Commoner. 



THRIFT DAY 

JANUARY 10TH 
TEACHING AND PRACTICING THRIFT 

"There is a thrift of time, a thrift of talents, of energy, of effort, of labor- 
saving and economy producing, of health and physical being, of moral stamina, 
of natural resources. The conservation and proper use of all that pertains to 
the best interests of individual or society, and the elimination of waste every- 
where, are principles to be universally recognized. The emphasis upon otherwise 
waste material must find expression in upkeep and repair; in care of person and 
property, in housing and protection of tools, utensils, equipment. Salvage there 
must be, both material and human, and conservation of soil and water and forests 
and fuel. We must pass forward to coming generations the results of out legiti- 
mate inheritance — not alone our human and social inheritance and achievements, 
but the inheritance and achievements of the resources of nature." 

"In these days of high prices and extravagent tendencies every effort should 
be made to earn, and invest, and save. Economic prosperity depends more often 
on the disposition of the income than on the amount of the income or salary 
received. Every child should early start a bank account, should be made respon- 
sible for earning something and should become familiar with simple business 
practices. A thrift program at school and at home involves the adoption and 
use of a budget system, both for individual and home. In no better way can 
there be spread intelligent thrift habits than by wise spending, judicious invest 
ment and daily use of the budget." 

What are you doing now to make your future safe? 

"It is what you save, not what you earn, that insures your prosperity and 
happiness in the years to come." 

Are you laying the foundation now that in later years you will be phsyically 
fit, economically safe and morally sound? 

SUGGESTED PROGRAMS 

PRIMARY 

Chorus — Patriotic Song. 

Address — The Meaning of this Meeting. 

Recitation — How Do I Know When I'm Thrifty — Alberta Walker. 

Recitation — "There is a Boy in Our School." 

Play — "The Three Bears of To-day." 

Chorus — Stamps. (Tune, Smiles) 

Recitation — The Garden Soldier's Song. — Alberta Walker 

Recitation — Our Flag. — Mary Howlister 

Closing Chorus — Patriotic Song. 

UPPER- GRADE 

Chorus — Patriotic Song. 

Address by pupil — "How and Where We Will Save." 
Recitation — To-day. — Thomas Carlyle. 
Recitation — Opportunity. — Edward Rowland Sill. 
Chorus — 



/92o 



I ONLY GET * 7S 
A MONTH BUT 
. I'M GOING TO 
SAVE PART OF IT 
UNTIL I GET 
J MONEY TO OO 
^\INTO BUSINESS 
\FOR MVSELF 



LARGER SAIAR 




IONLYGET r lo° 
A MONTH 
I'LL NOT TRY 7^, 
TO SAVE ANY ^*#" 
'TIL I GET A ialilL 
.ARY^ 



REPORTER: TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE 
THE CAUSE OF YOUR FINANCIAL FAILURE 

IN LIFE ?" 
LABORER: "FAILURE TO PRACTICE THRIFT 
AND ECONOMY WHILE A YOUNG 
MAN" 



1950 





reporter: "to what do you attribute 

vour success?" 
president:"resolving while a 
young man to save apart of mv 
income for the purpose of 
starting a business of my own 



Designed by R. H Wilson Drawn by W T Hunt 

THRIFT TO-DAY AND THE RESULTS 30 YEARS LATER 



Thrift Day 55 



Four-minute Speech. 

Recitation — "How to be Happy." 

Declamation — 

Chorus 

Recitation — "Peace Hymn of the Republic." 

Play — The Handmaid. — Henrietta F. Dunlap. 

Chorus — 

HIGH-SCHOOL 

Chorus — Patriotic Song. 

Opening Address — "Our Debt to Uncle Sam." 

Four-minute speech. 

Recitation — "The Boy Columbus." 

Declamation — Thrift. — Dr. Frank Crane. 

Chorus — 

Four-minute speech. 

Play — Where's Your Money. — Henrietta F. Dunlap 

Chorus — 

REFERENCES 

Bulletin issued by Savings Division, U. S. Treasury Department, Washington, 
D. C. "Thrift Day Program." 

"Teaching Thrift." Outline for school use prepared under direction of 
Director for Educational Institutions, Savings Division, 25 Arch Street, Boston, 
Massachusetts. 

"History of the Thrift Movement in America." by S. W. Straus, Published 
by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THRIFT" 

1 . Spend less than you earn. 

2. Make a budget (that is to say, figure on what income you can expect 
and then plan your expenditures so as to keep them within this expected 
income.) 

3. Keep a record of your expenditures. 

4. Have a bank account. 

5. Carry life insurance. 

6. Make a will. 

7. Own your own home. 

8. Pay your own bills promptly. 

9. Invest in Government securities. 

10. Share with others — that is to say, give what you can to all good causes. 

TEACHERS! TEACH THRIFT 

The teaching of Thrift in the public schools has a good start but too many 
teachers think that the time for this has past. It is more important now than 
ever and it is a subject that is vital to all. Thrift as it relates to the earning, 
saving and expenditure of money is important but the Larger Thrift affects all 
the activities of the school and the community. There is a Thrift of everything 
that is good and the right kind of teaching will apply this to all worth while 
endeavors. 

Teachers, plan your work to teach Thrift as you have never taught and 
thought of it before. Thrift teaching is real teaching. 



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THRIFTOGRAMS 

Thrift means intelligent spending and implies foresight. — Frank Crane. 

Thrift takes you up the ladder — waste brings you down. 

— John Wannamaker. 

Thrift is not a hardship, it is a habit. Thrift is the one investment that 
always pays dividends. — Isaac Marcosson. 

Thrift implies self control. We are masters of self, not slaves of self. 
Life is not made for savings but savings are made that life here and now 
may be more abundant. — Bolton Hall. 

Thrift is such a simple thing and it means so much. It is the foundation 
of success in business, of contentment in the home, of standing in society. 

— Russell Sage. 

Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to 
make us a great and happy Nation. — George Washington. 

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtu3s. It begins 
with saving money. — Abraham Lincoln. 



LEE'S BIRTHDAY 

JANUARY 19TH 

American history is replete with the names of men whose lives command 
our respect and admiration even though we may disagree with their political 
or religious beliefs. Forgetting all else we keep the memories of their services 
to the country fresh in our minds. Of these men, few can lay greater claim to 
the love and admiration of succeeding generations than Robert E. Lee. 

As a military commander, his only rivals in American history are Washing- 
ton, Grant and "Stonewall" Jackson. He revolutionized modern military 
strategy by originating the system of long lines of trenches for defense. His 
defense of Petersburg and Richmond had been studied intensively by all the 
military schools of Europe for fifty years prior to the Great World War. 

As a military man, and as a citizen his life affords us a study rich in all 
the essentials that go to make up American citizenship. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 

Robert Edward Lee was born January 19, 1807, at Stratford, Westmoreland 
County, Virginia. The son of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a distinguished calvalry 
leader in the Revolutionary War, and Anne Hall Carter. 

Early in life he resolved on a military career and after his early school work 
was done he entered West Point in 1825. Because of his dilligence he graduated 
in 1829, second in his class. From his graduation he entered the Engineer 
Corps and was assistant to the chief engineer of the army in Washington in 1834. 
In 1831 he married Mary Parke Custis, the great-grand-daughter of Martha 
Washington. In 1837 he was in charge of the work of protecting St. Louis 
from the erosion of the Mississippi, and in 1842 he took charge of the defenses in 
New York harbor where he remained until the outbreak of the Mexican War 
in 1846. 

The Mexican War record raised him to the rank of colonel and General 
Scott pronounced Colonel Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." In 
1852 Lee became superintendent at West Point where for three years he rendered 
noted service. In 1855 he saw service in western Texas against the Indians, 
remaining until 1861 when he was recalled to Washington. On one of his visits 
to see his family he commanded the troops which suppressed the John Brown 
raid. 

"Now came the Spring of 1861. With it came war, war between the states. 
The states of the North and South had been quarreling for many years. They 
differed as to the taxes they should pay and the way the country should be ruled. 
They differed as to whether people should have slaves or not. Hot-headed 
people on both sides said bitter things. The more they quarreled, the angrier 
they became. 

"Lincoln said the Southern states should be made to stay in the Union. 
So he called for seventy-five thousand soldiers to send against them. He needed 
a good general to put at the head of the army. Who should it be? General Scott, 
who had led the army in Mecixo, was too old. Scott said, "Robert Lee is the 
best soldier I ever saw in the field. He will show himself the foremost captain 
of his time. Make him chief of the army. He will be worth fifty thousand 
men to vou." 




GENERAL LEE ON HORSEBACK 



Lee's Birthday 59 



"So President Lincoln sent and asked Lee to take charge of his army. Lee 
said "no." He loved the army and he loved the Union. "If four million slaves 
in the South were mine," he said, "I would give them all up to keep the Union." 
But Virginia was his mother state. He could not fight against her. "I must go 
with Virginia," he said. He gave up his place in the United States army and 
took command of the Virginia troops." 

REFERENCES 

"American Anniversaries," Dillon; P. R. Dillon Pub. Co. N. Y. City. 
Any American History. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song 

Essay — The Legacy of Lee. 

Short Addresses on: Lee, the man 

Lee, the soldier 

Lee, the teacher 



Song. 



LEE 

A passion of conflict — County or State ! 
Allegiance or loyalty! — which clearer the call? 
Man of the nation, a name blazoned high 

On escutcheons of glory — 
Should he part with the past in which they — his people — 

Had writ deep and fast — Lee. 

Harsh, bitter, and cruel the struggle, 

Then — white and undimmed 

The alter of Duty shone out of the dusk, 

And Love burned away all dreaming of dross, 

But he knew not, when yielding one sworn for another. 

He had carved on the heart of his country forever — Lee. 

— Kate Langley Bosher. 




THE BOY SCOUTS 



BOY SCOUT DAY 

FEBRUARY 8TH 

February 8th, 1910 was the birthday of the organization known as the 
Boy Scouts of America. It is therefore fitting that each year this date be ob- 
served in the public schools of Oklahoma. The week in which the 8th comes 
can well be designated as Boy Scout Week and will offer many opportunities 
for emphasizing the manly traits in daily life that have made this organized body 
of boys noted. This same week can be used to study the various clubs, organized 
for girls, which offer training specially fitted to develop the girl life. 

The Boy Scouts of America is the largest volunteer organization in the world. 
The movement has grown to such an extent that upon it's tenth birthday it had 
enlisted 364,226 boys in addition to the 500,000 who have passed the work. 
Each one of these boys is pledged to do a good turn daily. And what is a good 
turn? It is an act of unselfish service done with no thought of praise or reward, 
rendered simply and sincerely for sheer good will's sake. 

Since the Boy Scout movement is meeting with wonderful success in making 
boy life cleaner and stronger physically, mentally and morally, is it not worth 
while to direct the attention of the school children of America to the daily "good 
turn" habit? No one can doubt that these 364,226 boys with their all-round 
"nth" power are not going to help leaven the mass of human selfishness and 
indifference to the needs of the other fellow. No one can deny that the "good 
turn" multiplied by thousands and multiplied again by the three hundred 
sixty five days of the year is not going to make an appreciable dent in our social 
order. 

The public schools of the country can render no greater educational service 
to our boys and girls than to foster the "good turn" habit in the minds and hearts 
of each one. No school can consider itself progressive without organizing a 
Boy Scout troop. 

REFERENCES 

National Headquarters, Boy Scouts of America, 200 Fifth Ave. New York 
City. 

Boys' Life. The Boy Scouts' Magazine. 

Standard books and magazines devoted to subjects in which Scouts are 
to pass examinations. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song 

Address — The Boy Scout Movement of America 

Essay — Scoutcraft Instruction. 

Talk — The Daily Good Turn. 

Song — Boys' Chorus. 

Talk — The Boy Scout Method of Nature Study. 

Study — The Scout Law. 

Song — Ame r i ca . 



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THE SCOUT OATH 

On my honor I will do My best — 

1 . To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law ; 

2. To help other people at all times; 

3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight- 

THE SCOUT LAW 

1 . A scout is trustworthy. 

2. A scout is loyal. 

3. A scout is helpful. 

4. A scout is friendly. 

5. A scout is courteous. 

6. A scout is kind. 

7. A scout is obedient. 

8. A scout is cheerful. 

9. A scout is thrifty. 

10. A scout is brave. 

11. A scout is clean. 

12. A scout is reverent. 

A MEANS TO AN END 

"Character development is the real objective of the Boy Scout Movement. 
Every step in the Scouting program is but a means to this end. The variety 
and interest of, as well as the practical tests are, after all, but a means for holding 
the interests of the boy, pledged to the Scout Oath and Law, under such leader- 
ship as will bring about character development. Likewise the whole scheme 
of merit badges is primarily for this same purpose. The form of troop organiza- 
tion, the scoutmaster and his assistants, the local council, and indeed the National 
Council and all of its officers, are also but a means to this end." 

"The Character development manifests itself in health, efficiency, chivalry, 
loyalty, patriotism and good citizenship." 

ENDORSEMENTS 

The Boy Scout movement is setting an example that our whole public 
school system ought to follow. — Dr. Charles W. Eliot. 

The spirit of chivalry, the salt of civilization, is one of the several important 
things which leaders of Boy Scouts of America are bringing into the lives of the 
boys of this country.. — Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell. 

The school cannot utilize all the energies of the boy. This splendid move- 
ment comes to our aid. The troublesome element is smaller since the scouts 
were organized. It tends to raise a higher standard among boys. Their personal 
appearance is better. — T. C. Hassell. 

The marked improvement in a certain group of boys attracted my attention 
and set me to wondering about the cause of this particular effect. The boys 
were at the difficult age, yet somehow they had become more manly, more amena- 
ble to law and order, more helpful and cooperative in school activities; in fact, 
more satisfactory in every way. My research work led me to the discovery that 
they were all members of the Boy Scouts. — Mrs. Perkins. 



LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 

FEBRUARY 12TH 

The oft repeated question "just what is greatness" finds a complete and 
satisfying ansu/er in the life of Linclon. He was the simplest of men, of great 
heart, sympathetic, yet courageous in upholding his convictions. He is revered, 
and his memory is loved, by the peoples of the world. Though tragedy stalked 
beside him he brought sunshine into the lives of multitudes. He was dedicated 
to the idea of liberty and justice for all and none can say he' loved his country 
better than Abraham Lincoln. 

As we observe this day let us strive to direct the attention of the children 
to the great attributes of greatness which Lincoln's life so vividly revealed — 
simplicity, genuineness, breadth of sympathy, vision. No better index to his 
character can be found than in his Gettysburg speech. 

"He was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American, 
and that in his homely form were first gathered the vast aud thrilling forces of 
this ideal government — charging it with such tremendous meaning and so 
elevating it above human suffering that martyrdom, though infamously aimed, 
came as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from its cradle to human liberty. 
Let us, each cherishing his traditions and honoring his fathers, build with reverent 
hands to the type of this simple but sublime life, in which all types are honored, 
and in the common glory we shall win as Americans there will be plenty and to 
spare for your forefathers and for mine." — Henry W. Grady. 

REFERENCES 

American Anniversaries, Dillon; P. R. Dillon Pub. Co.. N. Y. City. 
Any American History. 

Lincoln's Birthday, by R. H. Schauffler, Moffot Yard & Co. 
Educational Journals for February of each year. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — America. 

Reading— Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 
Recitation — Our Heroes. — Phoebe Cary. 
Stories told by Lincoln, or about Lincoln; Several pupils. 
Camp Fire songs — 
Recitation — Where Poppies Grow — 
Recitation — My Captain — 
Quotations from Lincoln — Several pupils. 
Talk — by a soldier who has seen service in France. 
Flag Drill- 
Closing Song — Dixie. 

QUOTATIONS 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time 

— Longfellow. 




ABRAHAM LINCOLN— Wm. E. Marshall 



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He was the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. 

— E. M. Stanton. 

The greatest man of his age. — A. E. Burnside. 

Dead, he speaks to men who now willingly hear what before they refused 
to listen to. Men will receive a new impulse of patriotism for his sake and will 
guard with zeal the whole country which he loved so well. — Henry Ward Beecher. 

A blend of mirth and sadness, smiles and tears ; 

A quaint knight-errant of the pioneers; 

A homely hero, born of star and sod ; 

A peasant prince; a masterpiece of God. — Selected. 

QUOTATIONS FROM LINCOLN 

Learn the laws and obey them. 

Revolutionize through the ballot box. 

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. 

Our government rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public 
opinion can change our government. 

Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, struggling 
working man, I am for that thing. 

You can fool some of the people all the time, or all the people some of the 
time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. 

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from 
poverty — none less inclined to take, or touch, aught which they have not honestly 
earned. 

We are not enemies but friends; we must not be enemies. Though passion 
may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords 
of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living 
heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the 
union when again touched, as surely it will be, by the better angels of our nature. 

The Lord must love the common people — that's why He made so many of 
them. 

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. 
This country . . .belongs to the people who inhabit it. 

Government of the people, by the people, for the people. 
Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him 
labor diligently to build one for himself. 

WE NEED A FRESH CROP OF LINCOLNS 

We're never tired of talking about the glories of popular government, and 
very few of us admit that we're ever tired of hearing about them, but what 
definite thing do we ever do to keep alive that little sprig of democracy which is 
native in the heart of every American girl and boy? What do we do to feed it 
and tend it and water it? America depends for its life, its liberty, its happiness, 
on a wide-awake and conscientious citizenship; but what do we do to build up 
such a citizenship? What do we do to bring the individual sprig of democracy 
to flower? — Hermann Hagedorn, in "You are the Hope of the World." 



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WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 

FEBRUARY 22ND 

PATRIOTISM 

The annual celebration of Washington's birthday, not only by the sons of 
Virginia, but by Americans in all parts of the land, is a sign of his enduring popu- 
larity. His fame is immortal, so far as that word may apply to any person of 
ancient or modern times. When all due allowance is made for hero-worship, 
his is a superlative worth. 

To George Washington rightly belongs the place of pre-eminence among 
colonial leaders. The colonies could, indeed, boast of many men of conspicious 
ability and unswerving patriots men of affairs, men of genius for finance and gov- 
ernment; but none of them fulfilled the requirements of a popular hero as did 
Washington. His is an all-round greatness that none of his contemporaries 
had. There were other patriots of the time who were truly heroic and noble, 
whose services to their country are gratefully remembered; but his is an incom- 
parable glory. It was perhaps best that he was not a man of brilliant intellect 
and scholastic attainments; otherwise he would not have been so efficient and 
active as a man of affairs. He was alert in the field without being too rash 
or impetuous. Only a man of strong physique could have gone through what 
Washington did. His impressive appearance was a point in his favor, as was his 
dignity of manner. So he was fitted to shine in camp and court. Military success 
alone does not account for his popularity. 

Washington was idolized in his day, and his memory has been cherished as 
a priceless possession by succeeding generations. His name had become a house- 
hold word in all the civilized lands of the earth. No other citizen of the Americas 
is so widely known and honored. Lovers of liberty in the Old World and the 
New have paid spontaneous tribute to his exalted merit. 

Washington is universally regarded as the grandest type of American that 
our country has yet produced. No other, save Lincoln, is deemed worthy of 
a place beside him. His life affords character lessons in heroism beyond that 
of Alexander, Caesar, or Napoleon. John Marshall's terse characterization 
of the man is eminently true: George Washington was "first in war, first in 
peace, and first in the hearts of his country-men. — Eugene Parsons. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. 

Flag Salute. 

Short Sketch of the Life of George Washington. 

Recitation — Washington — Margaret E. Sangster. 

Recitation — Washington on Profanity 

Chorus — Patriotic Song. 

Recitation — Mount Vernon — Hezekiah Butterworth. 

Essay — Why We Love the Name of Washington. 

Reading — Washington's Disappointment — Ellery A. Greene. 

Chorus — Star Spangled Banner. 

Tableaux — Scenes in the Life of Washington. 



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MAXIMS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 

Obey and honor your father and mother 

Speak not evil of the absent; it is unjust. 

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. 

Say not anything that will hurt another, either in fun or earnest. 

Let your recreations be manly, not sinful. 

Do not speak when others are speaking. 

Every action in company ought to be some sign of respect to these present. 

Show not yourself glad of a misfortune of another, though he were your enemy. 

When a man does all he can, though he succeed not well, blame not him 
that did it. 

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of anyone. 

Speak not in an unknown tongue in company, but in your own language. 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called 
conscience. 

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; 
it is better to be alone than in bad company. 

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart. 

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. 

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. 

The very idea of the power of the right of the people to establish government 
presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. 

Ingratitude, I hope, will never constitute a part of my character, nor find 
a place in my bosom. 

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what 
I consider the most enviable of all titles — the character of an "honest man." 

POEMS 

Freedom — James Russell Lowell 

The Concord Hymn — Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The Birthday of Washington Ever Honored — George Howland 

A True Soldier — Alice Jean Cleator 

Then and Now — Eva Hamilton 

ESSAY SUBJECTS 

Chronology of the Life of Washington 
The Home Life of Washington. 
A Visit to Mount Vernon. 
Comparison of Washington and Lincoln 
Characteristics of Washington 
Washington's Athletic Skill 



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A NATION'S STRENGTH 

Not gold, but only men can make, 

A people great and strong; 
Men who for truth and honor's sake 

Stand fast and surfer long. — Emerson 

Make the love of country perfect in the love of man — Giles. 

Washington is to my mind the purest figure in history — Gladstone. 

Just honor to Washington can only be rendered by observing his precepts 
and imitating his example. He has built his own monument. We, and those 
who come after us., are its appointed, its privileged guardians. 

— Robert C. Winthrop. 



ARBOR DAY 

The Friday following the second Monday in March of each year shall be 
hereafter known thorughout Oklahoma as Arbor Day. 

It shall be the duty of the authorities of the public schools in this state, 
to assemble the pupils in their charge on Arbor Day in the school building, or 
elsewhere, as may be deemed proper, to provide for the conduct, under the general 
supervision of the county superintendent of public instruction, or city super- 
intendent or other chief officers having the general oversight of the public schools 
in each county or city such excercises as shall tend to encourage the planting, 
protection and preservation of the trees and shrubs, and an acquaintance with 
the best methods to be adopted to accomplish such results. Sections 346-7, 
1919 School Laws. 

Arbor Day as designated by law is a little too late in the year for this latitude. 
Tree planting should precede the designated day. 

HISTORY OF ARBOR DAY 

The Old Swiss chronicle relates that away back in the fifth century the people 
of a little Swiss village by the name of Brugg determined to secure a forest of 
oak trees on the common. More than a dozen sacks of acorns were sown and 
after the work was done each participant received a wheaten roll as a reward 
for his labors. For some reason unexplained the acorns refused to grow. The 
people, however, were determined to have an oak grove, so a day was appointed 
and the entire community, men, women and children, marched to the woods, 
where each very carefully dug up a sapling and transported it to the common, 
where a competent gardener superintended its planting. At the close of the 
tree planting each boy and girl was presented with a roll and in the evening the 
grown people had a merry feast and frolic in the town hall. The saplings were 
well watered and cared for by details of citizens under the direction of the gardener, 
the work being voluntarily done, but every one was expected to do his share. 
In the course of years a fine grove was the result, which furnished a place of shade, 
rest and recreation for the citizens and their decendants. For years the anni- 
versary of this tree planting was observed by the people oft his town with ap- 
propriate exercises, among them being a parade of the children carrying oak 
leaves and branches, at the close of which rolls and other eatables were distributed 
in commemoration of the event. It is said a similar feast still exists in this 
and all other villages of Switzerland. 

The rapid destruction of the forests in our country called attention of students 
of forestry to the dangers which confronted us and brought forth numerous 
publications on the subject of forest preservation. It devolved, however, upon 
"Treeless Nebraska" to institute systematic tree planting on a given day through 
the organized efforts of schools and citizens. The Hon. J. Sterling Morton is 
generally credited with originating the idea. In 1872, acting upon his suggestion, 
the Governor of the State issued a proclamation designating Arbor Day and 
asking that the schools and citizens generally observe the day by appropriate 
exercises and tree planting. The setting April sun saw over a million trees 
planted in Nebraska soil as a result of the first Arbor Day celebration. In 1885, 
Arbor Day, April 22nd, Morton's birthday, was made a legal holiday in Nebraska. 



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The originator of the idea lived long enough to see Arbor Day adopted in 
more than forty States and Territories, to record millions and millions of trees 
added, to note thousands of school houses change cheerless surroundings for those 
of comfort and beauty and to feel that in stimulating the planting of trees he 
had been an active factor in fostering a love for the school, the home and our 
country. — Illinois Arbor and Bird Day Manual. 

It seems to me that a tree and a truth are the two longest lived things of 
which mankind has any knowledge. Therefore, it behooves all men in rural 
life, besides planting truths, to plant trees; it behooves all men in public life to 
plant economic and political truths, and, as the tree grows from a small twig to 
a grand overspreading oak, so the smallest economic truth, as we have seen 
in the United States, even in the last year, can so grow as to revolutionize the 
government of the great Republic. I say, then, that we should all plant trees 
and plant truths, and let every man struggle so that when we all shall have passed 
away, we will have earned a great epitaph which we find in St. Paul's cathedral, 
London. — "If you seek my monument, look around you." 

— Hon. J . Sterling Morton. 

ARBOR DAY 

An old rule used to be that whenever a man cut down a tree he must, at 
any rate, plant a new one to make up for it. They have forgotten that good 
rule in England. In America we never observed it, and thousands of acres of 
glorious forest hitherto untouched by any hand but nature's, have been cut 
down at an alarming rate Men do not understand that all human life depends 
upon the green leaf, and that to cut down trees is to hack at the rope by which 
we are hanging. — The Children's Encyclopedia. 

AMERICAN TREES IN FRANCE AS MEMORIALS 

On the battlefields where American soldiers gave their lives for the freedom 
and safety of humanity, France is planting American trees sent by the American 
Forestry Association. Large quantities of the seeds of different trees, sent by 
the association, have been received and gratefully acknowledged by the French 
Minister of Agriculture. They will be planted for the reforestation of regions 
devastated by war. Thus in years to come America will have the finest of all 
memorials on the battlefields where her sons answered the call of humanity — 
the loving, growing trees of America. — Rhode Island Arbor Day Book. 

MEMORIAL TREES 

We suggest the plan of having a tree planted on every public school ground 
for each soldier and sailor from that school district who served in the war. The 
planting of the trees by the children, under the direction of the teacher and assisted 
by the patrons of the school, would not only be a fitting tribute to the soldiers 
but in reality would be a lesson in tree planting and tree cultivation, which should 
be taught to all school children. 

Plans should be made at once for the planting of the trees. The number 
and names of the soldiers and sailors in each school district should be secured 
by the pupils, and when the trees are planted each class should be assigned a 
certain number of trees to care for. It would be well to have a contest in the 
school as to which class will take the best care of its trees. It is very probable 



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that some of the trees will not live, but the plan contemplates that next year 
new trees will be planted to replace the dead ones, and so on until every school 
ground is planted in living trees. It may be that some school grounds already 
have as many trees as can properly be grown on the ground. In cases of this 
kind additional ground may be secured, or the trees already there may be desig- 
nated for the soldiers and sailors and cared for by the children. 

It is quite probable that in cities and towns the number of soldiers from the 
community are so great that there will not be room upon the school grounds 
to plant the trees. In such an instance we suggest that it would be a wise plan 
for the city or town to set aside for a park a certain piece of ground and provide 
for it being planted in trees as above outlined, the park thus presented to be 
named in honor of the soldiers and sailors. 

But few school grounds in the state have plenty of shade trees. Many of 
them do not have any trees; yet, everyone appreciates the importance of shade 
trees and their beauty and enjoy the comfort which they give to humanity. 
— R. H. Wilson, State Supt. Public Instruction. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Invocation — 

Music — 

Essay — "The Origin of Arbor Day." 

Recitation — "Hiawatha's Canoe." — Longfellow. 

Essay — The Value of Forests. 

Song — Oklahoma . 

Address by Local Speaker — 

Planting and Dedicating Trees.— 

Song — "Arbor Day Song." — S. F. Smith. 

STORIES 

The Maple Leaf and the Violet. — "Story Hour." 

The Walnut Tree that Wanted to Bear Tulips. — Wiltse's "Morning Talks.'. 

The Oak Tree and the Acorn. — Wiltse's "Morning Talks." 

The Anxious Leaf. — Henry Ward Beecher. 

The Talk of the Trees Along the Village Street. — Jane Andrews in "Stories 

Mother Nature Told." 
Apple Trees in Love. — Henry Ward Beecher. 
The Last Dream of the Old Oak. — Hans Anderson. 
The Kind Old Oak. — Hans Anderson. 
Philemon and Baucis-Cook. — "Nature Myths." 

Springtime — Eugene Field in "A Little Book of Profitable Tales " 
The Little Lilac Buds — "Cat Tails and Other Tales." 
The Story of the Forest. — "Story Hour." 
The Maple Tree's Children. — Abby Morton Diaz. 
How the Oak Tree Became King. — Bertha Hortense Gault. 



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POEMS 

To a Pine Tree. — Lowell 

Selections from Under the Willows — Lowell 

Selections from The Maples. — Lowell 

Selections from "On Planting a Tree at Inverary." — Lowell 

An April Day. — Longfellow. 

Hiawatha's Sailing. — Longfellow. 

Spring. — Longfellow. 

The Trailing Arbutus. — Whittier. 

Jack in the Pulpit. — Whittier. 

Among the Trees. — Bryant. 

The Planting of the Apple Tree. — Bryant. 

The Elm Tree and the Vine. — Bryant. 

The Forest Hynm. — Bryant. 

March. — Bryant. 

The Gladness of Nature. — Bryant, 

April. — Alice Cary. 

A Lesson. — Alice Cary. 

Under the Washington Elm. — Holmes. 

Spring — Holmes. 

Spring Has Come. — Holmes. 

An April Welcome. — Phoebe Cary. 

SONGS 

The Old Mountain Tree. — James G. Clark ("Golden Robin") 
The Song of the Rose. — James G. Clark. ("Golden Robin") 
Swinging 'Neath the Boughs of the Old Apple Tree. 

- — O. R. Barrows (Skinner's Arbor Day Music.) (C. W. 
Bardeen) 
The Return of Spring. — "The Encore." 

The Winter Song of the Tree. — Jennie Youngs. (The Wyatt Co.) 
The Brave Old Oak. — E. J. Loder. (Arbor Day Music.) 
Forest Song. — Prof. W. H. Venable. 
Monarch of the Woods. — (Arbor Day Music) 
Song of the Maples. — (Arbor Day Music) 

TOPICS FOR STUDY AND COMPOSITION 

The Origin of Arbor Day. 

How to Plant a Tree. 

How to Care for a Tree. 

Size and Age of Trees. 

How Trees Have Affected Man's Conduct. 

Famous Trees of History. 

Uses of Trees. 

Planting and Cultivation of Shrubs and Vines. 

Why Forests? 

Cultivation of Roses. 

Insect Enemies of Fruit Trees. 

Highway Shade Trees. 

Care of Small Fruit Trees. 



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How the Birds Help the Trees. 

Coloring of Autumn's Leaves. 

Uses of Wood in Oklahoma. 

National Parks and National Forests. 

Forest Fires. 

Trees a Factor in the Nation's Resources. 

The School House Yard. 

Why We Keep Arbor Day. 

Paper Making from Wood. 

The Trees Most Common in our Country. 




OUR BIRDS— Courtesy Audubon Society 



BIRD DAY 
SECOND WEEK IN APRIL 

During the past few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of 
the lawmakers of this and other countries to pass laws for the protection of birds. 
This movement is based upon a sound sense of economic values. Birds are one of 
man's best friends. Indeed, without them it is doubtful that we could survive. 

It is no mere figment of fancy to picture this land, if birdless, as a waste 
of weeds and desert, uninhabited, and awaiting salvation at the hands of some 
future pioneers who might bring with them, as their surest aids to success, the 
founders of bird families. For only in that way could they hope to hold at bay 
the insect hordes which parallel every furrow and camp at the base or among 
the leaves of every tree, and only by conserving the birds we now have can we 
guarantee to ourselves a continuance of the crops which underlie not only all 
our wealth and achievements, but base our very being and insure to us a place 
among the living. 

April and May are the months best chosen for the study of birds. It is 
at this time that they are returning to us after their long absence, and they 
come to us with newborn interest. 

Early in April some bright conversation lessons should be given about the 
birds, that the children may tell what they know of the birds common to the 
section in which they live, and also that they may gain new knowledge of and 
interest in these feathered friends. The children should be encouraged to keep 
notebooks and to record in them their daily observations; this will keep them 
alert. A bird calendar should also be kept on the schoolroom board. 

As each bird comes, read or teach some of the beautiful tributes to him 
given us by our best poets and authors. Many of the poems are real literary 
gems and should be memorized ; others are to be used simply for the information 
they contain. 

REFERENCES 

Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer; F. E. L. Beal; Govt. Printing 
Office, Washington. 

Birds as Weed Destroyers; Sylvester D. Judd; U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 

American Birds; Wm. Lovell Finley; C. Scribner's Sons, New York City. 

Birds and Man; W. H. Hudson; Green & Company, New York City. 

Birds that Every Child Should Know; Neltje Blanchan; Doubleday, Page 
& Co., New York. 

Birds Thorugh an Opera Glass — Merriam. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

Common Things With Common Eyes — B. Hoskin Standish. Minneapolis. 

Our Common Birds and How to Know Them — Grant. Chas. Scribner's Sons 

POEMS 

The Return of the Birds — Bryant. 
The Song of the Sparrow — Lucy Larcom. 
To a Skylark — Shelley. 
The Nest — Lowell 



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The Birds' Orchestra — Celia Thaxter. 

Birds in Summer — Mary Howitt. 

What a Bird Taught — Alice Cary. 

The Mocking Bird — Joseph Rodman Drake. 

"Bob White." — George Cooper. 

QUOTATIONS 

God sent his singers upon earth 
With songs of gladness and of mirth, 
That they might touch the hearts of men, 
And bring them back to heaven again. 

— Longfellow. 

The bird makes his heart glad amid the blaze of flowers; 
Which things appear the work of mighty God. 

— Tennyson. 

Hark! Hark! the lark at Heavens gate sings. 

— Shakespeare. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song- 
Paper on "The Birds — our friends." 
Essay on "The value of bird protection." 
Recitation, "To a Waterfowl," — William Cullen Bryant. 
Address — The Significance of Bird Day." 

DECORATION OF ROOM 

Flowers 

Pictures 

Canary Birds 

Drawings on Board. 



EASTER DAY 

On the First Sunday following the first full moon after March 21st we observe 
Easter. It is to be regretted that with too many of us the observance of the day 
is mads an occasion for the parading of fins clothss merely, and, with the children, 
the hunting of Easter eggs and rabbits. These are merely surface traits of the 
day. The real significance is to be found in the fact that on this day, hundreds 
and hundreds of years ago, the greatest miracle of the world's history came to 
pass. A great Man ross from the dead! And he held out the hope to us, in which 
we may well believe, that we, too, may be resurrected. 

There is just so much truth in the world which forms the foundation of life. 
We may safely build thereon. The danger lies in our erecting a superstructure of 
falsity and, being creatures of habit and custom, arrive at the point where we 
accept the superfluous for the real. 

In the observance of this day, as in other significant days, let us strive to 
crystalize in the minds of the children the real, undsrlying significance of the day. 

Reawakening life, as seen in bud and seed, is a means by which the msaning 
of the Resurrection can bs brought home to the pupil. 

"Easter is a very old festival and is closely connected with the Jewish faith. 
The feast of the Passover was changed by the early Christians to the feast of 
the Resurrection. When the Christian missionaries converted the Saxons, 
they found them celebrating a feast to the goddess Ostara, or Eastre, who was 
goddsss of the morning also of spring. This was rsally a feast of thanksgiving 
for the triumph of the summer over winter and of day over night." 

REFERENCES 

The Bible. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song. 

The Story of the Resurrection. 

Essay — The true spirit of Easter. 

Song. 

POEMS 

Easter. — Charles Kingsley. 

New Every Morning. — Susan Coolidge. 

Golden Legend. — Longfellow. 

MR. EASTER RABBIT 

A long time ago there was a famine in a land across the water. The rain 
had not fallen for weeks and weeks, and the grass and leaves were dry and withered. 

In this land the people thought a great deal of Easter, and the fathers and 
mothers gave their children pretty new chothes at that time and many goodies 
and nice things to eat. 

This year they were very sad. It was only one week before Easter and 
everything was scarce and so high, what were they to do? 



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One evening the mothers met together to talk over plans and see if there 
was anything that could be done. One mother said, "We could have eggs, 
the chickens are laying; but the children are so tired of eggs, they have so many." 
The plan of giving eggs was abandoned. As the mothers could think of nothing 











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A BOY AND RABBIT— Raeburn 



they could do to give the children their Easter Holiday, they went home feeling 
very sad. One mother felt worse that the others ; she could not sleep for thinking 
of her own little boy and girl. One night as she lay awake she thought of some- 
thing. Sitting right up in bed, she saidVit loud, "I know, I know." She could 
hardly wait until morning to go to her neighbors and tell them of what she had 
thought. The secret flew, and soon all the fathers and mothers knew what this 
mother had thought of in the night. 4 

Easter morning cam?, and the fathers and mothers and children went to 
church. After church was over and they all came out, one of the mothers said, 



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"Let us all take a walk in the woods behind the church. Perhaps we shall find 
some flowers." 

They all went into the woods back of the church and soon a boy said : "See 
here ! See what I have found." He held up a pretty red egg. Then another found 
one, and another, and after a while a whole nest full of red, yellow, blue, green, 
and orange eggs were gathered. While they were wondering where these eggs 
came from, a rabbit jumped from behind a tree where a nest of such pretty colored 
eggs had just been spied by a little boy. He shouted, "I know, 'I know who laid 
the Easter eggs. The rabbit laid the eggs." 

This is how the rabbit came to be used at Easter, and ever since that Easter 
morning colored eggs have been used at Easter. 

* Adapted from Hase in "For the Children's Hour," Bailey and Lewis. 




HON. J. B. A. ROBERTSON— Governor 



STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR 



PROCLAMATION 



GOOD ROADS WEEK 



Because of the close relationship that exists between the good roads in a 
community and the schools, I deem it necessary to call the attention of the people 
of Oklahoma to the condition of the roads in this State. 

The last week in April has been selected as "Good Roads Week" through- 
out the State of Oklahoma. A special effort will be made to interest the commun- 
ity in the improvement of all the roads to the end that they may be serviceable 
at all times and at all seasons of the year, and that the health, safety and comfort 
of the public school children may be preserved as they go to and fro over our 
highways. It is difficult to estimate the cost of bad roads. This cost is paid 
by all the people of the community ; this tax is paid in things that decrease health, 
wealth and happiness, home comforts and social advantages. The drudgery 
in the home, on the farm and in the town and village is due, largely, to the bad 
road conditions and, as the roads are improved, so the drudgery descreases. 

Therefore, I, J. B. A. Robertson, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, do 
hereby proclaim and declare the last week in April as "Good Roads Week" 
and urge all boys, girls, women and men in every community in the State of Okla- 
homa to study seriously the road situation and endeavor thereby to create and 
crystalize public sentiment in favor of good roads, and take such other steps as 
can be taken to improve the road conditions that they may better serve the 
purpose for which they are established. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and 
caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State, at my office in Oklahoma City 
this 26th day of October, 1920. 

J.B. A. ROBERTSON, 

Governor. 

ATTEST: 

JOE S. MORRIS, 

Secretary of State. 




GOOD ROADS 

LAST WEEK IN APRIL 

"Good roads are the golden chain that binds the Nation together for pros- 
perity or defense. They lighten the burden of transportation, reduce the cost 
of living, raise the value of farm lands, increase the national efficiency, provide 
for the common defense, build up the church and school, banish the isolation 
of rural life, and spread propserity, intelligence, and social advantages through- 
out the length and breadth of the land. We are just entering upon an era of 
road improvement which will make our national wealth and strength available." 

ROAD EPIGRAMS 

There are no abandoned farms along good roads. 

Rain can't keep a community down but bad roads can. 

The Mud Tax has exacted a fearful toll in time of peace; if war — what then? 

Left to themselves, a dirt road and a rain will always mean mud. 

If you want to know if good roads are good things, ask a horse 

I f the roads around a town are bad, it might as well be on an island. 

Meet "preparedness" in all phases by good roads. 

A farm on a bad road five miles from town is further away than a farm on 
a good road ten miles distant. 

All roads need the Water Cure. 

Good roads are neighbor makers and trade builders. 

Good roads shorten distances; bad roads isolate. 

Trees lend a grace of beauty to every homestead and to every roadway 
they border. 

He who plants a tree — he plants love. 

We plant the house when we plant the tree. 

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God. 

America pays more for bad roads than good roads would cost. 

The two greatest enemies of roads are water and politics. 

By furnishing better means of communication, good roads will add to the 
selling price of farm products and in every way will contribute to the comfort 
and happiness of the people. Then, furthermore, we can have a good system of 
consolidated schools only where we have good roads. 

Let us plant a tree by the wayside, 

Plant it with smiles and tears, 
A shade for some weary wanderer, 

A hope for the coming years. 

— L. H. Mooney. 



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SUGGESTED PROGRAM FOR GOOD ROADS DAY 

Song — (Select a song generally well known to all) 

Roll Call of pupils. Answer by quoting from Good Road Epigrams. 

Recitation — "A Friend of Man" — Sam Walter Foss. 

Essay — The Planting of Trees and the Building of Good Roads as a Duty 

to Others. 
Music — Solo; Instrumental or vocal. 
Five minute talks by citizens of the community on: 

The condition of the roads of our country. 

How can these be made better? 

Trees are a benefit to most roads 

Can the conditions of our school grounds be improved? 
Music — Selected . 
Debate — Resolved that railroads take the place of wagon roads: so roads 

are not always the test of progress. 
Song — America . 

POEMS 



The Road — Berton Braley. 

The Joys of the Road — Bliss Carmen. 

The Song of the Open Road — Walt Whitman. 

ESSAY SUBJECTS 

Road Building in History. 

History of Roads in America. 

MacAdam and his Principles 

What Trees to Plant by the Roadside. 

Poor Roads — Poor Schools — Ignorance — Poverty. 

Good Roads — Good Schools — Knowledge — Prosperity. 




MADONNA— Bodenhausen 



MOTHER'S DAY 

The second Sunday in May has been set apart for special observance in 
honor of the home and motherhood. 

For centuries poets and painters have immortalized the radiant motherhood 
yet it was for Miss Anna Jarvis a quiet unassuming little Philadelphia woman 
of the 20th century to organize a movement which has resulted in the setting 
aside of a special day on the calendar when all mothers will be reverenced. 

The first notable observance of Mother's Day was May 10, 1908, when Phila- 
delphia celebrated Mother's Day in church and home. 

In 1914 Congress authorized the President of the United States to designate, 
by annual proclamation, the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and to 
request the display of the American flag on Government buildings, and private 
homes. The first national proclamation was issued by President Wilson on May 
9, 1914. 

The object of the day is to recall memories of the mothers who have gone; 
to brighten the lives of those who remain ; and to encourage men, women and chil- 
dren to honor home and parents. It is to be observed by some act of kindness 
to mother; by special services in churches of all creeds, and other organizations; 
and by wearing a white carnation (emblem of purity, beauty, fidelity, and peace 
of mother love), the badge of the day. 

Public schools observe the Friday and business houses the Saturday preceding. 

It is the custom to wear a flower on Mother's Day — and if not the carnation, 
another flower. The white if the mother is not living and a red if she is living. 
Too often we heap flowers on the dead and forget them for the living. A token 
of flowers sent the mother who is living will prove a blessing. 

ONE MOTHER 

Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky ; 

Hundreds of shells on the shore together ; 
Hundreds of birds that go singing by — 

Hundreds of birds in the sunny weather. 
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn ; 

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover ; 
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn; 

But only one Mother the wide world over. 

— Selected. 

DEDICATORY POEM 

If I were hanged on the highest hill, 

Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine! 
I know whose love would follow me still, 
Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine! 

If I were drowned in the deepest sea, 

Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine ! 
I know whose tears would come down to me, 

Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine! 



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If I were doomed of body and soul, 

Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine ! 

I know whose prayers would make me whole, 

Mother O'mine, O Mother O'mine! 

— Rudyard Kipling. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — A song mothers like — The School 
Recitation — "Cookin' Things" 

Essay — "How I could help mother" — A 12 year old boy. 
Essay — "How I could help mother" — A 12 year old girl. 
Song- 
Address — "Mothers Day" 
Talk by a grandmother. 
Toast — To Our Mothers. 
Song — Home Sweet Home. 

QUOTATIONS 

God could not be everywhere; therefore He made mothers. 

— Hebrew Proverb. 

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother. — Bulwer Lytton. 

Poets sing of home, mothers sing at home. — Alfred R. Jackson. 

Comparing one maxim with another, 

You'll find this maxim true, 
That the man who is good to his mother 

Will always be good to you! — Fred Emerson Brooks. 

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of the little children. 

— William Makepeace Thackery. 

Money builds the house, mother makes the home. — Geo. Zell. 

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. 

— Victor Hugo. 

All that I am, and all that I hope to be I owe to my angel mother. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 

Memories of mothers are sweet, but never as sweet as mothers themselves. 
Some of us forget this. — M. D. Hillmer 

• The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. 

— Napoleon. 

One mother is worth a thousand schoolmasters. — Proverb. 

A man never knows all that his mother has been to him till it's too late 
to let her know that he sees it. — William Dean Howells. 



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SELECTIONS 

'Mother's Day" — Margaret Symore 
'A Picture ' — Oliver Marble 
'My Mother's Knee" — Samuel Lover 
'My Mother's Image" — Matilda C. Edwards 
'Smiting the Rock" 
The Quest" — Eudora S. Burnstead 
'Somebody's Mother" 

'My Mother's Song" — Will M. Maupin in Linnings 
'Mother's Almanac" — C. Leo 
'I won't be Long" — J. W. Foley 
'A Mother's Birthday" — Henry Van Dyke 
'We Must Send Thee out to Play" — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
'Child and Mother" — Eugene Field 



PEACE DAY 
MAY 18TH 

Peace Day should be widely celebrated every year in schools throughout 
the United States. Every possible opoportunity to emphasize the Peace Move- 
ment should be seized by teachers and pupils alike that in the near future the 
god of war will die and in his place the Angel of Peace will reign throughout all 
nations. 

May 18th is the birthday of the first World Peace Conference, held in 1889. 
The second Conference met June 15, 1907 and the third Conference was to have 
been held in 1915 but the outbreak of the European war in 1914 prevented. 

In Holland at The Hague stands the Palace of Peace. This remarkable 
building is today a monument to a world wide effort to abolish the woe of war. 
Here the foremost nations of the world have made gifts, priceless in value, to 
foster the spirit of brotherly love among nations. The Palace has long been 
unused for the purpose for which it was erected yet can we say that the effort 
made in the past availed nothing when the whole world was at war? Not so, 
for out of the past will rise a greater love for Peace which will make every home 
in every nation a JPeace Palace. Then will come true the Peace Proclamation. 

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning 
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
war any more." 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Music — Recessional — Music: De Koven, Words: Kipling 

Recitation — Ring out the Old; Ring in the New — Tennyson 

Readings — The Dawn of World Peace — William Howard Taft 

The Significance of the Eighteenth of May — Fannie Fern Andrews. 

Music — Oh, Beautiful, My Country — Tune, Webb: Words, Symonds. 

Essay — Christ of the Andes 

Recitation — The Better Way — Susan Coolidge 

The Soldier's Recessional — John H. Finley 

Quotations 

Music — America — S. F. Smith 

POEMS 

A Vision of the Future — Locksley Hall, Alfred Tennyson 

A Hymn of Peace — Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Hear, O Ye Nations — Frederick L. Hosmer 

The Need of the Hour — Edwin Markham 

Our Heroes — Phoebe Cary 

Angel of Peace — Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Peace on the Earth — E. H. Sears 

Peace — Edwin Markham 

The Coming of Peace — John Ruskin 



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The Soldier's Dream — Thomas Campbell 

There is so Much to Do — Florence Holbrook 

Ode to Peace — William Tennant 

A Vista — J. A. Symonds 

The Statute of Peace — Katrina Trask 

A Story for Peace Day — "The Island Kingdom'' — Geo. W. Nasmyth 



ESSAY SUBJECTS 



The Cost of War. 
The Cost of Armed Peace. 
The Hague Palace of Peace. 
Great Men in History. 
The Waste of War. 

QUOTATIONS 

There are two ways of ending a dispute — discussion and force: the latter 
manner is simply that of the brute beasts; the former is proper to beings gifted 
with reason. — Cicero. 

New occasions teach new duties ; time makes ancient good uncouth ; 
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast with Truth : 
Lo, before us gleam her camp fires! we ourselves must pilgrims be, 
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. 
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

The more you reduce the burdens of the people in times of peace, the greater 
will be your strength when the hour of peril comes. — Benjamin Disraeli. 

The more I study the world the more I am convinced of the inability of force 
to create anything durable. — Napoleon. 

If the press of the world would adopt and persist in the high resolve that 
war should be no more, the clangor of arms would cease. — John Hay. 

My first wish is to see the whole world at peace and the inhabitants of it 
as one band of brothers, striving which should contribute most to the happiness 
of mankind. — George Washington. 

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my 
opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace When will mankind be 
convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? — Benjamin Franklin. 

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise 
a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing 
injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of blood of thousands and 
of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? — Thomas Jefferson. 

The Hague treaty stands for the arbitration of all difficulties between nations 
without exception. It is not generally known how broad and important an 
instrument it is. I regard it as the triumph of the nineteenth century that the 



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nations could come together at its end and make a treaty like that. The tribunal 
has advanced more rapidly than did the Supreme Court of the United States 
in the first five years of its existence. * * * In the future, instead of the 
barbarous cry "To arm, To arms!" we shall hear another cry: "To The Hague, 
To The Hague." — Ocsar S. Straus. 

Peace hath her victories, 

No less renowned than War. — Milton. 

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, 

For freedom only deals the deadly blow; 

Then sheathed in calm repose the vengeful blade, 

For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade — John Quincy Adams. 

And man, taught wisdom from the past, 

In friendship joined their hands, 
Hung the sword in the hall, the spear on the wall, 

And plowed the willing lands. — Charles Mackay. 



MEMORIAL DAY 

MAY 30TH 

Great national days are opportunities for stirring deeply the emotional 
life of all the people and from this come high ideals and lofty sentiments. Out 
of the heart are the issues of life. Because of the truth of this statement, the 
heart culture must be considered for from the heart our ideals get their form. 

Memorial Day as a national institution is sacred and offers the best oppor- 
tunity to inspire in young and old a true and reverent spirit of patriotism. It 
reinspires with a love for our national traditions and aspirations. 

The day is sacred to the memory of the soldiers in homespun; in blue and 
gray; in khaki, who died for the faith they held. It is the privilege of the public 
schools to fittingly observe this day out of love for the dead and to rededicate 
the lives of the living to noble and worthy deeds. 

Let each teacher who can secure the attendance of some veterans invite 
them to be present and to participate in the patriotic exercises. Let the children 
gain the lasting memory of having seen and heard survivors of our wars 

AMERICA 

The hope of all who suffer. 

The dread of all who wrong. — Whittier. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song — Star Spangled Banner 

Recitation— What Makes a Nation— W. D. Nesbitt 

Reading — Origin of Memorial Day 

Recitation — Memorial Day — Angelina W. Wray 

Song — Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground. 

Essay — What Memorial Day should Mean Today. 

Recitation — The Moral Welfare — Whittier 

Recitation — In Flanders Field — John McCrae 

Address — By a War Veteran 

Song — America 

TOPICS FOR ESSAYS 

Our Government Cemeteries 

Influence of Memorial Day 

Soldiers' Monuments 

The Spirit of 1917 

Edith Cavell 

The Meaning of the Service Star 

POEMS 

The Blue and the Gray — Francis Miles Finch 

Honor our Patriot Dead — Anonymous 

Little Nan — Anonymous 

A Monument for the Soldiers — James Whitcomb Riley 

War — Sam Walter Foss 



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He'll See it when He Wakes — Frank Lee 

Decoration Day — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Them Yankee Blankits — W. Small 

The New Memorial Day — Albert Bigiow Paine 

The Nameless Dead — Walt Mason 

The Palmetto and the Pine — Manley H. Pike 

Decoration Day — Celia Thaxter 

The Veterans — Dennis D. McCarthy 

Sail On, O Ship of State — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Where are You Going, Great-Heart — John Oxenham 

QUOTATIONS 

Honor, then, to the American soldier now and forever. Honor him in sermon, 
and speech. Honor him in sonnet, stanza and epic. Honor him in the historic 
page. Honor him in the unwasting forms by which art seeks to prolong his well- 
earned fame. Honor the volunteer soldier, who, when his work of devastation 
and death was ended, put aside his armor, melting into the sea of citizenship, 
making no ripple of disturbance upon its vast surface. Honor the citizen soldier 
of America who never knew the feelings of vindictiveness and revenge. 

— John L. Swift. 

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. — Nathan Hale. 

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her steps never turn backward. 

— James Russell Lowell. 

The debt of gratitude which we owe to the nation's defenders can never 
be repaid, either by this or future generations . . . Generations come and 
go, and the issues for which they fought and died soon pass into history. But 
the principles of undertakings worthily accomplished, for an unselfish purpose, 
abide forever and guide us to a nobler destiny and still greater achievements 
as a nation. — William McKinley. 

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by 
faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day. 

— David Gregg 

Out of sorrows common alike to the North and South came this beautiful 
custom. But Decoration Day no longer belongs to those who mourn. It is 
the common privilege of us all, and will be celebrated as long as gratitude exists 
and flowers bloom. — Chauncy M. Depew 

"Here are all the flowers I love the best, 

And I've brought them all to lay 
With loving hands where soldiers rest, 

On Decoration Day." 



FLAG DAY 

JUNE 14TH 

The story of our flag is one that every citizen should know. It is the 
emblem of our country, its hopes and its. ideals. No person living under the 
"Stars and Stripes" should yield homage to any other flag. 

The educating of children errs woefully if it does not instill in the minds 
of every pupil a love for the flag and the country for which it stands. If the 
United States shall stand — if tomorrow's progress of our country shall keep 
pace with yesterday's progress, it will be because of the determination of the 
citizen's of tomorrow to take the flag as their own, uphold it, protect it, and love 
it with patriotic fervor. 

It is well worthwhile that the significance of this day be impressed upon the 
minds of the children. It is a potent day. 

THE FLAG SPEAKS 

I am whatever you make me, nothing more, 

But always I am all that you hope to be, 
and have the courage to try for. 

I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and ennobling hope. 

I am the day's work of the weakest man, 

and the largest dream of the most daring. 

I am the constitution and the courts, statute and statute- 
maker, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street 
sweep, cook, counseler, and clerk. 

I am no more than you believe me to be. 

My stars and my stripes are your dreams and your labors, 

For you are the makers of the flag, and it is well that you 
glory in the making. 

— Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior. 

REFERENCES 

"American Anniversaries," Dillon; P. R. Dillon Pub. Co., N. Y. City. 
Any American History. 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song— Hurrah for the Flag— Howlison. 

Talk — Story of the Flag — By Teacher or pupil. 

Recitation — Your Flag and My Flag — Wilbur D. Nesbit. 

Recitation — The Flower of Liberty — Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Song — The Red, White and Blue. 

Talk — Proper and Imporper Uses of the Flag — Principal or Teacher. 

Five Minute Talks — By pupils. Betsy Ross; George Washington; Phillip 

Morris; The Second Continental Congress. 
Flag Drill — By pupils. 
Song — America. 
Flag Salute. 




SPIRIT OF 76— A. M. Willard 



Flag Day 101 



POEMS 

Our Flag — Margaret Sangster. 

God Save the Flag! — Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

A Song for our Flag — Margaret Sangster. 

The Voice of Peace — -James Whitcomb Riley. 

The Schoolhouse and the Flag — Frank T. Southwick 

The Voice of the Flag — Carl W. Mason 

A Toast — George Morrow Mayo. 

ETIQUETTE OF THE FLAG 

1 . Do not hoist the flag before sunrise nor allow it to remain up on the 
pole or staff after sunset. 

2. When the flag is hung horizontally (so it can be viewed from one side 
only) the blue field should be to the left; when hung vertically the blue field 
toward the right. 

3. Never allow the flag to touch the ground or floor when being hoisted 
or lowered. It should float freely and if caught should be released at once. 

4. The flag should be saluted by all present when being hoisted or lowered; 
and when passing in parade or in review, the spectators should stand if walking 
or sitting and, standing "at attention," salute with the right hand in all cases, 
except that a man in civilian dress and wearing his hat, should remove his hat 
and hold it with his right hand opposite his left shoulder. 

5. In placing the flag at half mast, always hoist to the top of the staff 
and then lower to position (the top of flag one -third down from top of pole) ; 
In lowering from half mast the flag should also be first raised to top of staff. On 
Memorial Day the flag should be at half mast until noon and at full mast the 
remainder of the day. 

6. When the American flag is carried, with others, in parade, it must 
have the place of honor, at the right. If a number of other flags are carried 
our flag must either precede the others or be carried in the center above the 
others, on a higher staff. 

7. In raising other flags with ours, the American flag must be above the 
others — never below them. 

8. The flag must never be draped, but always arranged to hang in straight 
lines. It must not be used as a cover for a desk, table or box. Nothing must 
ever be placed on the flag. When clusters or draping of colors is desired, bunting 
or cloth may be used — never the flag. 

9. The flag must not be used in whole or in part as a costume and when 
worn as a badge it should be small and pinned over the left breast or to the 
left collar lapel. It must never be used for advertising purposes — not even a 
picture of it; nor may it be used as a toy, fan, parasol, paper napkin, or sofa 
cushion. 

10. It is unlawful to trample upon mutilate, or otherwise treat the flag 
with insult or comtempt; or attach to it any emblem or inscription whatever. 
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1 1. When the "Star Spangled Banner" is being played or sung, all persons 
within hearing should rise and stand, head uncovered. The playing of it as 
a part of a medley is prohibited and it should never be played as an exit march. 

12. The flag is displayed on all patriotic occasions, especially on the follow- 
ing days: Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Mother's Day, Memorial 
Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Armistice Day. 

13. When the flag is hung as a streamer to be viewed from both sides, 
as when stretched across a street, the field of blue is always towart the east or 
the north. 

14. A pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: "I pledge allegiance to my flag 
and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and 
justice for all." 













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INDEPENDENCE DAY 
JULY 4TH 

The celebration of Independence Day should be the most potent factor 
in binding the people of the United States together in patriotic solidarity. Too 
many of us fail to give conscious thought to the importance which the Declaration 
of Independence bears to each individual. No country or people in connected 
history has had the growth and progress our country has had by virtue of the 
Declaration of Independence. Without it, we could not have developed as we 
have. It is at the very base of our being as a nation. 

May we not hope, by directing the thought of our children to the importance 
of this day, to instill in their minds a more intimate, personal love for their 
country and for the government under which it has attained to its position of 
leadership among the nations of the world? 

The Independence Day exercises should follow the careful study of the 
Declaration of Independence, one of the stepping-stones by which our country 
rose to a higher life, and one of the events leading up to it. 

Since many schools are not in session during the summer months it is sug- 
gested that some suitable date be selected during the term for the observance 
of this day. Teachers should not fail each year to take every opportunity to 
impress upon the minds and lives of the pupils the principles contained in the 
Declaration of Independence, the most famous document ever signed by any 
body of men. 

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the 
rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how. 

— James G. Blaine. 

THE OATH OF THE ATHENIAN YOUTH 

"We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty 
or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will 
fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; 
we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect 
and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or to set them at naught ; 
we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty. Thus in 
all these ways we will transmit this city not only not less but greater, better and 
more beautiful than it was transmitted to us." 

SUGGESTED PROGRAM 

Song. 

Essay — The Writing and Adoption of the Declaration of Independence. 
Five minute discussions on: Thomas Jefferson; Roger Sherman; Robert 
Livingston; Benjamin Franklin; John Adams; Richard Henry Lee. 
The story of the signing of the Declaration. 
Address — What the Declaration means to us today. 
Song. 



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POEMS 

The Concord Hymn — Emerson. 

Paul Revere's Ride — Longfellow. 

Lexington, 1 775 — Whittier. 

A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party — Holmes. 

Song of Marion's Men. — Bryant. 

The Ride of Jennie M'Neal — Will Carleton. 

Centennial of American Independence — Lowell. 

The Nation's Defenders — Butterworth. 

"Poems of American Patriotism," by R. L. Paget (L. C. Page & Co.) 

"American War Ballads," by Eggleston (G. P. Putnam's Sons) 

"Song of History," By Butterworth (New England Pub. Co.) 

QUOTATIONS 

Liberty is a solemn thing, a welcome, a joyous, a glorious thing, if you 
please, but it is a solemn thing. A free people must be a thoughtful people, a 
free people must be a serious people ; for it has to do the greatest thing that ever 
was done in the world, to govern itself. — Orville Dewey. 

Ring out the darkness of the land, 

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold, 

Ring out the thousand years of old, 

Ring in the thousand years of peace. — Tennyson. 

What's hallow'd ground? 'Tis what gives birth 

To sacred thoughts in souls of worth ! 

Peace! Independence! Truth! go forth 

Earth's compass round; 

And your high-priesthood shall make earth 

All Hallowed ground! — Campbell. 




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